All articles by Pensions Expert – Page 2
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NewsBulk annuities latest: Royal London completes £16m buy-in
Plus, Aviva and M&G complete buy-in transactions for unnamed pension schemes sponsored by US parent companies, with combined premiums totalling more than £220m.
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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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NewsLabour MPs turn on government over lack of WASPI compensation
Representatives of WASPI – Women Against State Pension Inequality – received support from around 100 MPs from multiple parties ahead of a legal challenge set to be heard in December.
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People NewsAppointments: Pensions UK, M&G, Simmons & Simmons, State Street
The latest hires, promotions and appointments for the week ending 24 October 2025.
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NewsRaising auto-enrolment contributions ‘could bankrupt businesses’
With auto-enrolment contributions one of many things the Pensions Commission is considering, new research indicates that many businesses are not in sufficient shape to cope with higher payments.
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People NewsAppointments: TPR hires lead for commercial master trust oversight
The latest hires, promotions and appointments for the week ending 17 October 2025.
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NewsPensions UK Annual Conference - live blog coverage from Manchester
Live coverage from Manchester of the trade body’s first conference since its summer rebrand as Pensions UK.
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People NewsAppointments: TPT, Broadstone, Pi, IGG, People’s Pension
The latest hires, promotions and appointments for the week ending 10 October 2025.
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NewsL&G announces new leadership for institutional retirement business
Gareth Mee will take over as chief executive of Legal & General’s institutional arm, which includes its bulk annuity services, in December this year.
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People NewsPensions UK seeks head of DC policy to lead on major reforms
The trade body is advertising for a senior policy leader to develop its thinking around defined contribution pensions, including master trusts and “lifetime savings”.
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People NewsAppointments: Lothian hires chief operating officer
The latest hires, promotions and appointments for the week ending 3 October 2025.
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People NewsUSS boosts senior team with general counsel and finance director hires
The UK’s biggest private sector pension scheme has hired the deputy CEO of NOW Pensions as its new group general counsel, as well as the chief financial officer of private bank Brown Shipley.
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People NewsAppointments: TPR boss gets non-exec role; board appointments at IA
The latest hires, promotions and appointments for the week ending 26 September 2025.
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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: Deals for Standard Life, Aviva, L&G
As competition in the bulk annuity market heats up, Standard Life has insured a flooring company’s DB scheme, while Aviva has taken on Portakabin’s retirement fund and L&G has insured a charity’s pension fund.
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NewsBulk annuities latest: Aviva insures department store chain’s DB scheme
Plus, Just Group insures Welcome Break’s pension scheme and the DB scheme connected to defence technology firm Ultra Electronics.
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People NewsAppointments: Tegs Harding joins LPFA board; IGG names risk transfer chief
The latest hires, promotions and appointments for the week ending 12 September 2025.
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People NewsIsio’s Menezes to lead PMI as president
The Pensions Management Institute has also appointed three new non-executive directors in IGG’s Louise Davey, independent trustee Duncan Buchanan, and Invesco’s Mary Cahani.
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People NewsRailpen appoints productive assets leader to oversee innovation investments
The investment manager for the £34bn Railways Pension Scheme has promoted Julia Diez to lead its productive assets investments work.
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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.