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The defined benefit (DB) scheme of Shepherd Foods (London) has completed a £3m buyout with Aviva, insuring the benefits of 13 pensioner and deferred members.

Rothesay has completed a £6m follow-on buyout with an unnamed aviation scheme, insuring benefits of eight pensioners and 31 deferred members.

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) concluded £5.6bn on bulk annuities in 2020 after recording just over £2.1bn in the second half of the year.

Legal & General saw flat movements in operating profit over the course of 2020, and a fall in profit after tax, although its retirement and investment management businesses grew.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and Sydney Packett & Sons have agreed bulk annuity deals for their pension schemes with Legal & General (L&G) respectively.

The uncertainty surrounding the potential impact of so-called long Covid and behavioural changes heightens the need for schemes to increase their longevity hedging, says Prudential Financial.

Rothesay wrote £7bn of bulk annuity business over the course of last year, with 12 further schemes now benefitting from the insurer’s policies.

Around £1trn of pension risk could be insured by just over a decade’s time as bulk annuity volumes grow rapidly, also boosting insurers’ rankings in the FTSE 100, according to Hymans Robertson.

The Mowlem (1993) Pension Scheme has secured the benefits of around 1,000 members in a buyout with Legal & General (L&G) offering income above compensation levels.

Pension risk transfer volumes this year will look similar to those in 2020 as market volatility creates opportunities for schemes able to act fast, according to Willis Towers Watson.