Derisk

Natasha Browne looks at gilt market predictions and what they mean for schemes

The Avery Dennison UK Pension Plan has appointed SEI to act as fiduciary manager and put in place a dynamic de-risking strategy.

Jack Jones looks at the growing range of options available to schemes of all sizes to tackle longevity risk

The majority of schemes do not intend to carry out any exercises to control longevity risk over the next two years.

Defined benefit (DB) scheme closures and increasing bulk annuity exercises are driving an increase in schemes outsourcing their administration, research from Aon Hewitt shows.

Schemes are delaying de-risking plans and reviewing automatic triggers as sponsors increasingly believe gilt yields will rise in the short term, a senior actuary says.

Jack Jones looks at the details of the ground-breaking deal to revive Kodak and keep its scheme out of the Pension Protection Fund

Dairy Crest has used £60m worth of maturing cheese to back its pension liabilities after trustees raised concerns over the sponsor covenant following the £341m sale of spreads business St Hubert.

Schemes fighting court cases are being forced to walk an investment "tightrope" in the Pension Protection Fund assessment period as they struggle to secure better than PPF-level benefits.

The majority of this week's respondents thought self-sufficiency was the long-term target for most defined benefit schemes. Although many pointed out that this was a protean term, more than half said it was what schemes were aiming for.