Partnership Assurance

Partnership has expanded its defined benefit business with the appointments of Mike Walsh and Martin Parker.

More than a dozen schemes are undertaking medically underwritten buy-ins with Partnership, after the first two ‘enhanced' buy-ins were completed by the insurer last year.

Partnership has completed two medically underwritten buy-ins in a development academics say could kick-start a £380bn market.

Jack Jones looks at the pros and cons

Just Retirement has launched a medically underwritten buy-in service aimed at small and medium-sized defined benefit schemes.

The issue of advising small pension pots is to be debated in the House of Lords on 27 November.

Partnership his appointed David Richardson as its chief financial officer as part of a board reshuffle.

Closed life fund consolidator Phoenix Group will sell £5bn worth of in-payment annuities to Guardian Financial Services next month.

The parent company of enhanced annuity provider Partnership intends to list the business on the stock market.

Partnership expects to complete a medically underwritten bulk annuity deal within the next few weeks in a transaction believed to be the first of its kind.