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Third-party capital in the asset intensive life reinsurance market now sits at all-time highs, but just how much higher can it go?
Business may be brisk in the UK pension risk transfer market, but human capital constraints mean lower activity than is potentially possible.
Greg Winterton spoke to Daniel Taylor, Client Director at Trafalgar House, to explore the essential priorities for trustees navigating the complex path toward de-risking.
All 500 members of the Videndum DB scheme and £43m of assets will transfer to the Clara Pension Trust, which will see Clara inject additional ringfenced capital into the scheme.
The latest results of its Milliman Pension Buyout Index (MPBI) shows that during March, the estimated cost to transfer retiree pension risk to an insurer in a competitive bidding process climbed 40 basis points, from 100.5% to 100.9% of a plan’s accounting liabilities.
Having entered into a full scheme pension buy-in with the trustees of the Noble Foods Limited Pension Scheme in April 2025, Utmost Life and Pensions has now issued 455 individual buy-out policies to scheme members and dependants less than a year after entering into the initial buy-in contract.
The transaction secures the benefits of 13 deferred and pensioner members with L&G and represents the second transaction completed under Isio’s PenUltimate Micro framework.
The positive changes in DB scheme funding over the last couple of years have presented new challenges and opportunities for schemes and a different set of decisions for trustees and sponsors.
Daiichi’s obligations to policyholders will remain unchanged following the reinsurance agreement, and Daiichi will continue to administer and service the policies.
2025 saw a shift in the risk transfer market towards smaller pension schemes, says Hymans Robertson in its latest report.