- DB/Final Salary pension schemes de-risking -buy-ins, buy-outs, longevity insurance
- Alternative de-risking solutions – APP, ISS
- Pension scheme administration
- Re-insurance
(UK, USA, Canada, Bermuda and Ireland)
Press release
Legal & General continues to meet PRT demand with eight transactions in March
Legal & General Group Plc (“Legal & General”) announces that its global PRT business has completed eight transactions over March, securing a total of £261m of pensioners’ benefits. The deals, covering UK and US pension schemes, range in size from approximately £2.2m to £80m. Three separate transactions were signed on Friday 27 March alone.
2 Apr 2020
Full press release
£261m of transactions agreed in March, three in the last week
These are challenging times for many and the security of income in retirement is a concern to current and future pensioners. Our customer service team is working remotely and continuing to service and support pension scheme members, many of whom are relying on receiving their pensions at this worrying time.
The PRT market in both the UK and the US continues to transact, with well-prepared schemes in particular taking advantage of the good pricing opportunities available.
Legal & General’s Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) team is well accustomed to ‘agile working’, but has now developed practices to remotely price, negotiate, and sign PRT deals. This puts us in a strong position to continue meeting market demand for PRT over the coming months as the Covid-19 situation continues.
Chris DeMarco: "Amidst a challenging environment and great uncertainty, today’s announcement demonstrates that despite the significant disruption we are still able to provide security to pension scheme members through risk transfer transactions.Recent history demonstrates that periods of market disruption may provide opportunities for schemes to de-risk their schemes. The sharp widening of credit spreads, combined with the strong appreciation in the value of gilts many schemes are holding, has improved buy-in and buyout pricing.
Legal & General have in place the team and resources to continue servicing our clients remotely as well as meeting demand for further risk transfer transactions. We are pleased that we were able to help these eight new schemes to safeguard their members’ benefits."
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