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Research: Bulk Annuities – Where Next?

Barnett Waddingham’s ‘Bulk Annuities: Where Next?’ report begins by referencing a record year for de-risking transactions [they exceeded £20 billion for the first time], and contains a number of key observations for 2019 and beyond.

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In particular, it finds:

  • The prevalence of buy-ins (as measured by total transaction volumes), over buy-outs continued in 2018
  • Total buy-out liabilities for UK occupational pension schemes were in excess of £2 trillion (by 2018)
  • Longevity reinsurers will have a healthy pipeline of business through 2018 and into the early part of 2019, because they are dealing with an “unprecedented volume of quotations”

 

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