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PIC signs £5.8bn of bulk annuity business in H1
PIC signs £5.8bn of bulk annuity business in H1

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has so far racked up £5.8bn of buyouts and buy-ins with defined benefit schemes this year, while reinsuring £7bn of longevity risk, it has revealed.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 24 June 2019
L&G deploys blockchain technology to streamline pension reinsurance
L&G deploys blockchain technology to streamline pension reinsurance

Legal & General Reinsurance (L&G) has launched what it claims is the UK's first pension risk transfer (PRT) execution platform to be driven by blockchain technology.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 12 June 2019
ReAssure announces potential intention to float
ReAssure announces potential intention to float

ReAssure Group has revealed its intention to publish a registration document and its potential intention to float on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

  • Industry
  • 07 June 2019
Prudential Retirement reinsures $2.6bn of UK pension risk
Prudential Retirement reinsures $2.6bn of UK pension risk

Prudential Retirement has completed around $2.6bn (£2bn) of reinsurance contracts for UK pension scheme longevity risk since the start of the year, it has disclosed.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 24 April 2019
American bulk annuity boom could squeeze UK market
American bulk annuity boom could squeeze UK market

Buy-in and buyout pricing for British pension schemes could hike if the US or Canadian bulk annuity markets boom, Legal and General (L&G) has predicted.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 25 January 2019
PIC agrees £1.2bn longevity reinsurance deal with SCOR
PIC agrees £1.2bn longevity reinsurance deal with SCOR

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has reinsured £1.2bn of its longevity risk with French company SCOR, the second deal between the two insurance companies.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 11 December 2018
Aviva completes £1bn longevity reinsurance deal with Prudential
Aviva completes £1bn longevity reinsurance deal with Prudential

The Prudential Insurance Company of America (PICA) has agreed to assume approximately £1bn of pension liabilities from Aviva's bulk annuity business.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 08 August 2018
Zurich names first head of longevity risk transfer
Zurich names first head of longevity risk transfer

Greg Wenzerul has been appointed Zurich's first head of longevity risk transfer, as it seeks to grow its business in the market.

  • Appointments
  • 12 April 2018
Prudential sells £12bn annuity book to Rothesay Life
Prudential sells £12bn annuity book to Rothesay Life

Prudential has sold £12bn in annuity assets to reinsurance business Rothesay Life as part of its M&G demerger announced today.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 14 March 2018
How 2017's largest longevity deal came to fruition
How 2017's largest longevity deal came to fruition

MMC UK Pension Fund's Frank Oldham tells Stephanie Baxter how its £3.4bn longevity swap came about and why it chose a captive structure

  • Risk Reduction
  • 12 February 2018
PIC completes £725m longevity reinsurance deal with PartnerRe
PIC completes £725m longevity reinsurance deal with PartnerRe

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has agreed to insure all its pensioner liabilities with PartnerRe in a deal set to cover its full buy-in of the Dockworkers Pension Fund.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 22 January 2018
Pru reinsures $1.2bn of PIC's longevity risk
Pru reinsures $1.2bn of PIC's longevity risk

Prudential Insurance Company of America has agreed to reinsure around $1.2bn (£920m) of Pension Insurance Corporation's (PIC) longevity risk.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 09 November 2017
Converting longevity swaps into bulk annuities: The next de-risking innovation?
Converting longevity swaps into bulk annuities: The next de-risking innovation?

Longevity hedges have long been considered a hurdle to doing a bulk annuity, but a ground-breaking deal shows it doesn't have to be. Stephanie Baxter looks at why converting swaps into buy-ins is taking off.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 10 April 2017
Prudential agrees £1bn longevity reinsurance deal with Rothesay Life
Prudential agrees £1bn longevity reinsurance deal with Rothesay Life

Prudential Retirement has reinsured benefits for around 22,500 pensioners, after taking on liabilities from Rothesay Life in their sixth deal together.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 10 March 2017
Prudential enters third longevity reinsurance deal with L&G
Prudential enters third longevity reinsurance deal with L&G

Prudential Retirement Insurance and Annuity Company (PRIAC) and Legal & General (L&G) have completed their third longevity reinsurance transaction since October 2014.

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  • 03 May 2016

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