Browsing: 2025 – September

This latest buy-in covers 758 members and marks the first transaction completed with Quantum Advisory.

Total US pension risk transfer new premium fell 64% in the second quarter of 2025 to $4.1bn, according to LIMRA’s U.S. Group Annuity Risk Transfer Sales Survey.

Transaction volumes of £9.8bn in the first six months of 2025 are the lowest first half volumes seen in the UK’s pension risk transfer market for four years.

Russell indexes are widely used by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for active investment strategies.

HSCM Bermuda Closes Secondaries Fund to Acquire Life Insurance-Linked Securities Portfolio: HS Sawmill LP closes with $110m of capital commitments.

The transaction secures the benefits of more than 1,900 members and was finalised in August this year.

In total, the £105m buy-in protects the pensions of 1,341 members across both Schemes.

During August, the estimated cost to transfer retiree pension risk to an insurer in a competitive bidding process decreased from 100.1% to 100.0% of a plan’s accounting liabilities.

Completed in June 2025, the transaction secures the benefits of over 1,000 pensioners and dependents as well as over 750 deferred members.

The overall mood at the event was upbeat, with attendees generally seeing the industry as having successfully navigated the macroeconomic tumult of recent years.