JLT Pension Capital Strategies has started a dedicated de-risking service to help sponsors and trustees efficiently work towards a pre-agreed defined benefit exit strategy.
Schemes could shift to 75% bond allocations over the next five years as the desire to reduce investment mismatching gathers pace, a consultant says.
The pension scheme risk transfer market is set to grow a further £20bn over the next 18 months, Hymans Robertson figures predict.
Buyout deals totalled £8.1bn last year, with £1.6bn of this business written in Q4 alone, research by JLT Pension Capital Strategies shows.
UK - Benign markets and the shift from RPI to CPI reduced defined benefit deficits from £144bn ($234bn) to £64bn over the past year, Pension Capital Strategies research shows.
Benign markets and the shift from RPI to CPI reduced defined benefit deficits from £144bn to £64bn over the past year, Pension Capital Strategies research shows.
Pension buyouts are set to break all records next year, after deals for the first three quarters of 2010 exceeded all of 2009, Pension Capital Strategies says.
UK - The top 100 UK firms' defined benefit schemes knocked £42bn off their combined deficit over the last year, Pension Capital Strategies research shows.
The top 100 UK firms' defined benefit schemes knocked £42bn off their combined deficit over the last year, Pension Capital Strategies research shows.
UK - The UK's biggest firms have pumped £13bn into their defined benefit pension schemes in the last 12 months, research shows.