More than £900m bulk annuity transactions were agreed between July and September 2012, bringing total business to £2.5bn in the year so far.
Steve Webb will today warn Europe of the "devastating" impact Solvency II could wreak on UK pensions, arguing it could drive deficits up by as much as £400bn.
Jack Jones analyses the attempts by EIOPA to diffuse tensions over the latest EC pensions directive.
Taha Lokhanwala asks whether pension funds want to build and if this works for the government.
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority has launched an impact assessment on European Commission plans to overhaul the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision directive.
The European Commission's overhaul of its pensions directive is rushed, counterproductive and borrows too heavily from Solvency II, says a key member of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority.
Pensions minister Steve Webb has called on the UK pensions industry to throw its weight behind his campaign against Solvency II and the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision directive.
Jonathan Stapleton, Editor at Professional Pensions, chairs a debate with expert comment from David Collinson, Pension Corporation; Mike Munro, CMS Cameron McKenna and Mark Duke, Towers Watson, which looks in detail at the reasons for the implementation...
Research conducted by Barnett Waddingham on FTSE350 companies shows the negative effect of scheme liabilities is increasing.
The consultation an impact assessment of a Europe-wide pensions regime is flawed and has been rushed through, says the National Association of Pension Funds.