Aviva

This week’s top stories included Barnett Waddingham announcing nine new partner promotions, while three accounting bodies came together to publish Covid-19 guidance for the compilation of pension scheme accounts.

While concerns around credit market liquidity have been rising since the global financial crisis, the Covid-19 sell-off has highlighted how fragile liquidity can be during periods of real stress. Colin Purdie discusses the short- and long-term implications...

The Unomedical Pension Plan has agreed to a £10m buyout of its 65 members’ liabilities with Aviva.

This week’s top stories included XPS Pensions revealing the best and worst performing fiduciary managers in Q1, while the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association has published a template to help defined contribution trustees with annual chair’s statements....

Keen insurer pricing and streamlined services will lead to a surge in demand from smaller schemes to undertake bulk annuity transactions, Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) predicts.

The British Bankers’ Association Pension Scheme (BBA) has completed a £95m bulk purchase annuity transaction with Aviva.

Barnett Waddingham non-executive chairwoman Elizabeth Renshaw-Ames has been named as trustee chairwoman of Aviva Master Trust.

The Co-operative Pension Scheme (Pace) has entered into its fourth bulk annuity transaction of 2020, agreeing a £350m buy-in with Aviva.

After a bumper year, insurers are now facing a slower and smaller pipeline as schemes grapple with Covid-19, writes James Phillips.

The National Pension Trust’s global equity fund has been named as the best performing growth phase default fund over one and three years in a research report published by Defaqto.