Archive

  • Prudential returns to bulk annuity market with £100m buy-in

    11 March 2014

    Deal covers 70% of Church Workers Pension Fund's members

  • Rothesay Life completes £123m pension buy-in

    07 March 2014

    First deal since acquisition of MetLife's £3bn UK bulk annuity portfolio

  • Swiss Re, Scor and Munich Re share in Aviva's £5bn longevity risk swap

    06 March 2014

    Largest longevity deal with pension fund to date

  • PIC delivers £30m buy-in for parcel pensioners

    05 March 2014

    The transaction covers around £30m of pensioner liabilities and 645 members

  • PIC concludes £15m pension buy-in

    25 February 2014

    Transaction covers 100 members of Dynochem's UK pension scheme

  • Rothesay Life acquires MetLife's UK bulk annuity subsidiary

    18 February 2014

    MetLife Assurance holds around £3bn in assets

  • FCA dices with actuaries in annuity profits probe

    14 February 2014

    The UK's Financial Conduct Authority wants to make the annuity markets more competitive, but tackling excess profitability and price differentiation may be a bigger challenge than it thinks. Christopher Cundy reports

  • UK annuities market faces competition probe

    10 February 2014

    Move likely to benefit open-market annuity providers

  • UK MP's annuities switching plan faces Solvency II hurdle

    08 January 2014

    Pensions minister's plan to allow pensioners to swap annuity providers could make insurers ineligible for matching adjustment

  • New participants enable £2.5bn longevity swap for AstraZeneca's pension fund

    17 December 2013

    The transaction hedges the longevity risk of around 10,000 members