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PP Monthly Digest: March 2021
PP Monthly Digest: March 2021

Here it is, our monthly digest of the most important pension articles Professional Pensions has written and published over the last month, along with some contextual notes.

  • Industry
  • 31 March 2021
PGIM Real Estate completes $30bn worth of transactions in 2020
PGIM Real Estate completes $30bn worth of transactions in 2020

Around $30bn (£22.7bn) in transactions were completed worldwide by PGIM Real Estate last year despite market concerns related to the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Investment
  • 09 February 2021
Five stories you may have missed this week
Five stories you may have missed this week

This week’s top stories included Capita’s sale of its employee benefits business, while research from the Association of Consulting Actuaries found little support among employers for multiple pensions dashboards.

  • Industry
  • 04 December 2020
Court of Appeal overturns 'wrong' block of £12bn Prudential annuity transfer to Rothesay
Court of Appeal overturns 'wrong' block of £12bn Prudential annuity transfer to Rothesay

The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court ruling which blocked the transfer of a £12bn annuity book from Prudential, now M&G, to Rothesay.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 02 December 2020
Five stories you may have missed this week
Five stories you may have missed this week

This week’s top stories included the launch of Scottish Widows’ ESG exclusions policy, while Deloitte acquired the admin and actuarial business of Kerr Henderson.

  • Industry
  • 13 November 2020
Prudential agrees £3.7bn longevity swap with Pacific Life
Prudential agrees £3.7bn longevity swap with Pacific Life

The Prudential Staff Pension Scheme has entered into a £3.7bn longevity swap with Pacific Life Re, insuring the longevity risk of over 20,000 pensioners.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 11 November 2020
UPDATED Independent governance committees: A list of who is sitting on which IGCs

PP looks at the pensions great and good who oversee contract-based schemes

  • Defined Contribution
  • 05 October 2020
FCA fines Prudential £23.9m for non-advised annuity sale failures
FCA fines Prudential £23.9m for non-advised annuity sale failures

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Prudential £23.9m for failures relating to non-advised sales of annuities.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 30 September 2019
Prudential agrees annuity deal with L&G
Prudential agrees annuity deal with L&G

Legal and General (L&G) Retail Retirement has agreed an introducer agreement within its retirement income division to provide annuities to Prudential customers with guaranteed rates.

  • Industry
  • 20 September 2019
Five stories you may have missed this week
Five stories you may have missed this week

The top stories this week were the High Court's decision to block the £12bn annuity transfer from Prudential to Rothesay Life, and a separate court ruling that 'raises the bar' for pension rectification exercises.

  • Industry
  • 23 August 2019
Court blocks £12bn annuity transfer from Prudential to Rothesay Life
Court blocks £12bn annuity transfer from Prudential to Rothesay Life

The High Court has blocked the £12bn transfer of Prudential's annuity book to Rothesay Life, citing the insurer's lack of "established reputation" and differing "capital management policies".

  • Industry
  • 19 August 2019
Five stories you may have missed this week
Five stories you may have missed this week

This week's top stories included Legal & General acquiring MyFutureNow to provide a dashboard service to customers, while also agreeing a hybrid buy-in with a Hitachi scheme.

  • Industry
  • 16 August 2019
M&G Prudential to rebrand after demerger
M&G Prudential to rebrand after demerger

M&G Prudential has announced it will rebrand and list its shares as M&G later this year.

  • Industry
  • 14 August 2019
PICA launches reinsurance counterparty to back UK bulk annuities
PICA launches reinsurance counterparty to back UK bulk annuities

Prudential Insurance Company of America (PICA) has launched a reinsurance counterparty, lending support to insurers that account for more than 90% of the UK pension risk transfer market.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 05 August 2019
Prudential restricts withdrawals from institutional UK property fund
Prudential restricts withdrawals from institutional UK property fund

Prudential has implemented withdrawal restrictions on its Workplace Pensions Prudential UK Property fund as scrutiny on open-ended funds' liquidity issues continue.

  • Investment
  • 08 July 2019
Rothesay Life completes £700m of bulk annuity deals in H1
Rothesay Life completes £700m of bulk annuity deals in H1

Rothesay Life completed around £700m of bulk annuity transactions in the first half of 2019, according to its latest trading update.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 05 July 2019
Have IGCs improved value for money in contract-based pensions?
Have IGCs improved value for money in contract-based pensions?

A fourth round of IGC reports has emerged and they are looking quite different to last year following regulatory change. Kim Kaveh looks at the key findings.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 18 April 2019
Good communications are more important than ever
Good communications are more important than ever

Malcolm Mclean says getting the channels of communication right and engaging more openly is a good starting point

  • Admin / Technology
  • 15 February 2019
Lesley Titcomb: Industry cannot rely on TPR to act as sole policeman
Lesley Titcomb: Industry cannot rely on TPR to act as sole policeman

The sector has to look after its own reputation and should not rely solely on the watchdog, The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) chief executive says.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 09 November 2018
Prudential partners with Hub Financial Solutions to widen annuity offering
Prudential partners with Hub Financial Solutions to widen annuity offering

Prudential has agreed an annuity referral partnership with Hub Financial Solutions as part of the provider's plan to widen the range of products and services available to its customers.

  • Industry
  • 03 September 2018
Prudential enjoys 13% boost to retirement sales
Prudential enjoys 13% boost to retirement sales

Prudential has secured an additional 13% of sales in its retirement business, but corporate pension sales fell marginally from £286m to £275m.

  • Industry
  • 08 August 2018
One in 10 risk huge tax bills by planning to withdraw entire pension pot
One in 10 risk huge tax bills by planning to withdraw entire pension pot

One in 10 of this year's retirees will take their entire pension pot as a lump sum, Prudential's 'Class of 2018' research finds.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 20 July 2018
Five stories you may have missed this week
Five stories you may have missed this week

This week's top stories include Prudential slashing the size of its corporate defined contribution business, and National Grid's £2bn longevity swap with Zurich.

  • Industry
  • 18 May 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Prudential shuts down worksite DC services amid 60% staff cut
EXCLUSIVE: Prudential shuts down worksite DC services amid 60% staff cut

Prudential is to slash the size of its corporate defined contribution (DC) pensions business as it moves to purely online- and telephone-based services, Professional Pensions can reveal.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 12 May 2018
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