Defined Benefit

Consultancy analysis finds government plans to extract DB surplus could be worth £160bn

Scheme will use around 10% of SRBS surplus per annum to help fund DC section

Consultancy predicts total volume of BPA business in 2024 to be between £45bn and £50bn

Consultancy says its Transfer Value Index saw ‘significant decline’ in final quarter of 2024

Barnett Waddingham End Gauge Index measures aggregate surplus at £63bn

Isio’s Low Risk Funding Index measures end of year surplus at £85bn with assets exceeding £415bn

Insurer says it completed a record 129 de-risking transactions throughout the year

Stephanie Hawthorne takes soundings on the government’s latest consultation

PPF 7800 Index records no change in funding ratio during last month

Survey shows 48% of schemes have higher hedge ratio than funded ratio