Browsing: Pension Risk Transfer
Longevity and Mortality Investor’s coverage of the pension risk transfer market, providing analysis, commentary and insights on the global PRT space.
Run-on options for schemes small and large set to become real consideration for UK defined benefit pension sponsors.
Yona Chesner, Head of Pensions Investment at Cartwright Pension Trusts, offers his take on the current state of the small to mid-market pension risk transfer buy-in space in this month’s Q&A.
New stress test based on hypothetical matching adjustment portfolios from S&P Global Ratings suggests ‘significant resilience’.
During June, the estimated cost to transfer retiree pension risk to an insurer in a competitive bidding process in the US inched down by 10 basis points.
The news comes nine months after the trustees signed a £4.3bn full scheme buy-in with PIC, which has appointed Brightwell as its administration partner.
The transaction secures the benefits of all 39 members, comprising 17 pensioners and 22 deferred members, and completed on 29 May 2026.
£11m buy-in secures the benefits of 24 deferred members and 59 pensioners and dependant pensioners.
The transaction, completed in May 2026, secures the benefits of the remaining 629 deferred and 51 pensioner members of the Plan and completes the buy-in of all plan liabilities.
£5m transaction, completed in June 2026, secures the pensions of 14 deferred and 34 pensioner members of the scheme and completes the buy-in of all scheme liabilities.
£35m bulk purchase annuity buy-in with PIC. The transaction secures the benefits of all 253 scheme members.