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Legal & General has agreed a £4.8bn full buy-in for the Boots Pension Scheme in what is the UK’s biggest ever single transaction by premium size. The deal secures the benefits of...

EQ Retirement Solutions is the latest company to sign up to Origo’s automated pension transfer service. It will be used as part of EQ Retirement business process outsources services for life and...

TPT Retirement Solutions has strengthened its investment team with the appointment of Inês Cunha Pereira as its new responsible investment manager, and the promotion of Peter Smith to be head of investment....

There is not expected to be any immediate slowdown in the DB buyout market according to Aon— despite the dynamics driving these transactions changing over the past 18 months. Aon predicts that...

Enplan, the governance and operations service for smaller defined benefit (DB) pension schemes, is introducing access to Schroders Capital's liability driven investment (LDI) modelling. Enplan, which is operated by Entrust and Isio,...

The absence of any mention of a Pensions Bill in the final King's Speech of this parliament has been met with disappointment across the industry, with attention now turning to the chancellor's...

Clara-Pensions has taken on its first scheme, with the transfer of the £600m Sears Retail Pension Scheme. This is the first time a DB scheme has transferred into a so-called superfund. Clara-Pensions...

Hymans Robertson has appointed Nadeem Ladha to be a senior adviser in its risk transfer team. Ladha, who joins on a short-term contract, will focus on risk transfer projects involving special situations....

Norton Motorcycles’ former owner has been given an eight month suspended jail sentence for taking almost £11m from pension scheme members to invest in his failing business. The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has...

Independent Governance Group (IGG) has appointed Clare Kember to be head up its outsourced governance services team. Kember has worked for IGG for eight years and has more than 20 years’ experience...