News articles & Thought Leadership
Pension Risk Tracker Index, Pensions Week, 9 April 2012
This month's analysis shows looming triennial valuations could reveal that some deficits have increase by around 12%, while an equity rally resulting in part from European refinancing presents trustees with some tough choices
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Pension Risk Transfer Index, Pensions Week, 12 March 2012
This month's index looks at the number of similarities between Eurozone banks and DB pension funds and with gilt yields still at a historical low, now is a good time to look at the impact on inflation and the effect this will have on pensioners
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Pension Risk Transfer Index, Pensions Week, 13 February 2012
This month’s index shows that despite some positive signs, the market remains as volatile as ever and caution is the only sensible way to procede. Uncertainty still surrounds gilt yields, while the past provides us with an idea of what’s to come
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Pension Risk Transfer Index, Pensions Week, 16 January 2012
This month's index looks at what we can expect from a bumpy year ahead – where the only certainty is uncertainty, and with a significant increase in deficits what does the future have in store for pension funds that are still holding on to gilts?
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Pension Risk Transfer Index, Pensions Week, 12 December 2011
This month's index shows another drop in affordability of bulk annuity insurance solutions, with the probability of the eurozone crisis growing worse and QE widening, while gilt yields are at their lowest level since the 1950s, and sinking lower
Also published on http://www.pensionsweek.com/Comment-Analysis/Buyout-Pension-risk-transfer-index?ct=true.
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Pension Risk Transfer Index, Pensions Week, 14 November 2011
This month's index shows that schemes holding gilts would be wise to cash them in through a pension insurance buy-in, while the strategy of rerisking with equities is a gamble for schemes and could push them towards a liquidity crunch
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Pension Risk Transfer Index, Pensions Week, 10 October 2011
This month's index shows a rise in pension scheme deficits and tumbling funding levels, taking affordability to near two-and-a-half-year lows, while also revealing the negative impact quantitative easing can have on corporate convenants.
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Pension Risk Transfer Index, Pensions Week, 12 September 2011
This month's index highlights the bashing that pension scheme funding levels sustained as a result of this summer's market crash, while also raising questions about the future viability of equity market investment for pension schemes.
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Pension Risk Transfer Index, Pensions Week, 11 July 2011
This month's index shows a rise in the affordability of pension risk transfer solutions. The possible repercussions of the Greek crisis may be being underestimated.
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Pension Risk Transfer Index, Pensions Week, 13 June 2011
This month's index shows a rise in pensioner-only affordability, despite a drop in overall affordability and economic woes on both sides of the Atlantic. Meanwhile, the change to IAS 19 is expected to have a £10bn impact on profit and loss.
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