Browsing: 2025 – August

The buy-in insures the benefits of the remaining 105 uninsured members of the Scheme.

The latest Milliman Pension Buyout Index shows that during July, the estimated cost to transfer retiree pension risk to an insurer in a competitive bidding process inched down from 100.2% to 100.1% of a plan’s accounting liabilities.

The transaction, completed in July 2025, included a £620m in-specie asset transfer of UK and US corporate bonds and UK gilts.

The transaction completed in March 2025 and secures the benefits of all 679 scheme members, comprising 299 pensioners and dependents as well as 380 deferred members.

The transaction, which covers around 190 deferred and pensioner members, builds on a previous buy-in completed with L&G in 2012 that covered approximately £23m of pensioner liabilities.

The transaction, completed in June 2025, insures the benefits of all 249 members, 124 deferred and 125 pensioners.

Two areas of research are providing the gerontology community with the most promise: dysregulated nutrient sensing and cell senescence.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, a striking divergence has emerged in the UK. While pensioners are living longer, working-age adults are facing worsening mortality rates.

Pension trustees face a critical challenge: ensuring their credit investments are aligned with both market conditions and insurer expectations.

Carl Groth, Chief Risk Officer at Legal & General Retirement America, offers his thoughts on the state of the US pension risk transfer market as we enter H2.