Pension Insurance Corporation

Deficits are creating a drag on scheme investment returns of about 1.2% of liabilities a year, Pension Insurance Corporation research shows.

Pension Insurance Corporation has begun offering scheme sponsors flexible insurance contracts that enable it to switch benefit payments from RPI to CPI.

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A record £12.5bn risk transfer deals were done in the first half of the year and a quarter of major firms will de-risk by 2012, Hymans Robertson predicts.

Scheme interest in risk transfer exercises increased over the second quarter, Pension Insurance Corporation says.