Buyouts gain popularity among smaller schemes

Transferring a pension scheme to an insurance company gains traction, says Charles Stanley

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Campion: "It’s no wonder trustees had already moved their goalposts towards buyout"
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Campion: "It’s no wonder trustees had already moved their goalposts towards buyout"

Charles Stanley Fiduciary Management’s annual survey has revealed a third (34%) of professional trustees are now targeting buyout, an increase from 19% last year.

The company spoke to 70 professional defined benefit (DB) trustees who had responsibility for assets under management of more than £60bn, with an average scheme size of £370m. The research was c...

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