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The scheme for glass manufacturer Pilkington recently completed a £1bn longevity insurance deal with Legal & General, with the UK insurer in turn transferring the risk to Germany's Hannover Re. Other risk transfer deals in recent months have seen Pension ...
May 25, 2012 at 09:08 | Source: Investment Pensions Europe
AkzoNobel, a Dutch chemicals group, is considering a longevity swap for the second of its large UK pension funds, following a deal announced for the first fund last week. In the UK, AkzoNobel sponsors the £3bn Courtaulds Pension Scheme and the £7.7bn ICI ...
May 27, 2012 at 22:42 | Source: efinancialnews.com
May 24 - The application of Solvency II to UK defined benefit pension assets could provide an incentive ... requirements for duration mismatch - but the details of any final deal are a long way off. This additional demand for bonds is unlikely ...
May 24, 2012 at 15:00 | Source: Reuters
The union said the deal was the best that could be achieved from ... Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers took part in a 24-hour UK-wide strike last Thursday over the pension changes. Prospect added that 5,000 of its members were affected by ...
May 13, 2012 at 23:56 | Source: BBC News
"There is a great deal of pension fund investment overlap which may create issues if a consultant takes a manager off their buy list," said Max Gottschalk, co-founder of $8 billion fund of hedge funds Gottex. Fund of funds charge their investors ...
May 25, 2012 at 09:30 | Source: Reuters UK
I find it deeply troubling that Bank of England officials want to deny the fact that QE has damaged UK pensions as a whole. QE has driven pension funds further into the red and leaves those trying to buy an annuity with a worse deal, which they ...
May 22, 2012 at 17:12 | Source: ITV
We offer a unique proposition. Whereas the UK pension longevity market tends to be dominated by intermediaries who write and then sell on the exposure, this deal stands out in that all of the longevity exposure is held on our own balance sheet."
May 24, 2012 at 12:23 | Source: The FINANCIAL
Not much cheer' The government says the plans, under which the pension age would rise to 68, and contributions could reach 14.5% for the highest earners, are a "fair deal for staff and taxpayers". The result of the vote on pension changes is due at the end ...
May 19, 2012 at 09:30 | Source: BBC News
In a report published on Monday, the Confederation of British Industry also urged the government to work with institutional investors to allow pension funds to invest ... the bank exits the deal by refinancing the project on capital markets ...
May 28, 2012 at 06:06 | Source: Reuters UK