All Buy-in articles
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NewsVeterans’ charity secures pension scheme in £16m buy-in
Just Group has completed a £16m buy-in for the defined benefit (DB) pension scheme of a military veterans’ charity, Royal Star & Garter.
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NewsFinnair lands buyout deal for DB scheme in record time
Finland’s largest airline has insured its UK defined benefit pension scheme, completing the journey from buy-in to buyout in less than two months.
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NewsEngineering firm secures buy-in with PIC worth £155m
Engineering company NG Bailey has secured a £155m buy-in for its defined benefit pension scheme with Pension Insurance Corporation.
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NewsLCP forecasts record buy-in volume of £55bn in 2026
Buy-in volumes could reach a record £55bn in 2026, according to a new forecast from LCP, as strong insurer pipelines and competitive pricing continue to support high levels of pension risk transfer activity.
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NewsFord drives biggest buy-in of 2025 with £4.6bn L&G deal
The transaction covers around 35,000 members of two Ford defined benefit schemes, and is the second largest deal L&G has ever completed.
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NewsBP enters bulk annuity market through £1.6bn buy-in with L&G
The oil giant’s £18.6bn pension scheme has completed its first-ever buy-in, marking one of the biggest transactions of 2025 to be announced so far.
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NewsBulk annuities latest: Royal London completes 10th buy-in of the year
Rounding up the latest activity in the bulk annuity market, including Rothesay’s double buy-in for a manufacturing company and two sub-£5m pension schemes insured by Just Group.
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NewsBulk annuities latest: Aviva and Just secure buy-ins worth combined £205m
Pensions Expert rounds up the latest bulk annuity deals, including a perfume company’s scheme and a double buy-in for accountancy and consultancy firm BDO.
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NewsCompetition boosting endgame options for small schemes, research shows
Sub-£100m deals made up the majority of transactions completed in the first half of 2025, continuing a trend from 2024, according to a report from Aon.
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NewsTech giant ABB completes £700m buy-in with Aviva to reduce pension risk
Aviva has secured technology company ABB’s UK pension scheme through a £700m buy-in covering more than 7,000 members.
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NewsJust Group secures construction firm’s DB scheme with £23m buy-in
The transaction covers all 249 members of the ROM Group Pension & Life Assurance Scheme, including 124 deferred members and 125 pensioners.
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NewsGerman bank seals £36m buy-in with PIC for DB scheme
The transaction covers all 156 members of the Helaba (London) Pension and Life Assurance Plan, and comes a day after PIC announced its biggest deal of the year.
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NewsRolls-Royce DB scheme fully insured after £4.3bn PIC buy-in
The deal is the biggest single transaction announced this year and follows a 2019 buy-in of a similar size for the Rolls-Royce DB pension scheme.
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NewsLogistics firm locks in £7.2m buy-in for DB scheme with L&G
The deal covers 122 deferred members of the WCF Ltd Staff Retirement Benefits Scheme, and was completed in less than five months, according to lead adviser Gallagher.
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NewsMercer parent insures broker’s pension fund for £1.9bn with Standard Life
Standard Life has insured the Sedgwick Section of the MMC UK Pension Fund in a bulk annuity transaction worth £1.9bn – the insurer’s biggest single deal since entering the market in 2018.
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NewsNational Grid insures DB scheme through £900m buy-in with Rothesay
The transaction is the third buy-in the energy company has completed, following deals in 2019 and 2020, and brings the total liabilities insured to £4.5bn.
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NewsBrookfield to enter UK market through £2.4bn Just Group acquisition
North American insurance giant Brookfield will buy Just Group in a £2.4bn deal to establish itself in the UK bulk annuity market.
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NewsBritish Heart Foundation completes £37m buy-in with Royal London
The charity has insured the benefits of more than 200 members through a transaction that was completed in just 14 working days.
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NewsEngineering organisation secures £40m buy-in with PIC
The transaction secures the benefits of all 200 members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ defined benefit pension scheme.
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NewsM&G backs £205m buy-in for Huntsman Pension Scheme
The deal insures the pensions of more than 660 retirees and deferred pensioners and was completed in the first quarter of 2025.