Derisk

The European Union has endorsed revised accounting standards for schemes which will cut UK firms' reported profits by £10bn and could trigger an increase in de-risking.

The Daily Mail and General Trust pension scheme is setting up its first in-house de-risking group - the Triggered Asset Switch Committee - in a bid to make speedier investment decisions and improve its funding ratio.

Andrew Short talks to industry experts about how schemes can prepare to de-risk their portfolio

FirstGroup has boosted its UK Bus Pension Scheme funding position by almost £75m through a programme of de-risking activities.

Revised IAS19 measures will remove perceived barriers to de-risking and make companies focus more on the discount rate used to measure scheme liabilities, says Mercer.

UK schemes have hedged longevity risk for 10% of pensioner members after conducting a record £12.4bn in risk transfer deals last year, according to Hymans Robertson research.

Trustees and sponsors looking to begin the de-risking process might often wonder where to start.

Rolls Royce Holdings has more than halved its post-retirement deficit to £397m and continued its concerted programme of de-risking.

FTSE350 businesses that de-risked their pension schemes saw an average share price rise of 1.7% compared to an average index fall of 0.2%, analysis finds.

Pilkington Superannuation Scheme has insured £1bn of liabilities against unexpected longevity increases, in a deal which confirmed 2011 as a record year for the de-risking market