Mercer
Industry
Chris Martin speaks to James Phillips about Independent Trustee Services’ plans since its management buyout and his experience working with stressed and distressed schemes.
05 May 2020
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13 min read
Risk Reduction
After a bumper year, insurers are now facing a slower and smaller pipeline as schemes grapple with Covid-19, writes James Phillips.
04 May 2020
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18 min read
Industry
Asset managers have made considerable improvements in their gender pay gaps, with an average narrowing of 2.6 percentage points, Professional Pensions analysis finds.
28 April 2020
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4 min read
Investment
With UK pension schemes holding significant allocations to alternatives, Dan Melley looks at how they have weathered the latest crisis.
21 April 2020
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4 min read
Defined Benefit
Technology is at the heart of BA Pensions’ drive to help members and it wants to share that with others. James Phillips speaks to BA Pensions chief executive Fraser Smart.
17 April 2020
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15 min read
Appointments
The People’s Pension (TPP) has appointed Baroness Jeannie Drake and Mark Condron to its board of trustees.
15 April 2020
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1 min read
Risk Reduction
The Co-operative Pension Scheme (Pace) has agreed its third buy-in this year, insuring £400m of liabilities in the Co-operative Bank section of the scheme with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC).
14 April 2020
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2 min read
Defined Benefit
Every month, several firms issue trackers of the aggregate defined benefit (DB) scheme funding position. See here for the March 2020 estimates on the various measures…
14 April 2020
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4 min read
Risk Reduction
Castings has agreed a £72m buy-in contract for its two defined benefit pension schemes with Aviva.
01 April 2020
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1 min read
Risk Reduction
Multinational communication services giant WPP has completed a £250m buy-in for two of its pension schemes with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) as the insurer celebrated a “healthy pipeline” of deals amid the Covid-19 outbreak.
31 March 2020
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3 min read
