The Chamber of Shipping Retirement Benefits Plan has completed a £40m buy-in using a fixed fee service aimed at smaller schemes.
The 4imprint Group Pension Scheme has entered a buy-in with Pension Corporation to cover approximately £25m of legacy pension liabilities.
Booker Tate has agreed a buyout of its £20m UK defined benefit scheme with Pension Corporation.
Pension Insurance Corporation has invested £50m in Raglan Housing Association as part of a strategy to increase its holdings of housing association and infrastructure debt.
The Cookson Group Pension Plan has signed a £320m buy-in with Pension Insurance Corporation to insure its pensioner liabilities.
The Graham & Brown Retirement Benefits Scheme has agreed a buy-in with Pension Corporation which will see it spread the premium over the next five years.
The Aon Minet Pension Scheme has secured a £100m buy-in with Pension Corporation to cover approximately a quarter of its pensioners' liabilities.
The volume of bulk annuity business written in the first quarter of the year dropped by 85% compared to the final quarter of 2011, says Aon Hewitt.
Almost half of trustees expect funding levels in the latest round of triennial valuations to be worse than they were three years ago, according to research.
Pension Corporation captured £600m of new business last year taking its number of policy holders to 55,000, but saw its annual profits tumble.