TUI Travel has embedded a Pension Increase Exchange (PIE) offer into its retirement processes, in a move which has cut its liabilities by up to £32m.
TUI has completed a Pension Increase Exchange (PIE) exercise across its three UK defined benefit (DB) schemes.
Trustees of the £570 Britannia Airways Ltd Superannuation and Life Assurance Scheme have appointed LCP to act as its actuarial adviser.
TUI Travel's pension deficit has climbed above £500m as poor asset performance and changes to actuarial assumptions wiped out savings made by capping benefit accrual.
Sponsors will increasingly turn to intellectual property as a contingent asset to plug pension fund deficits, lawyers say.