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Research
Impact of Pensions on UK Business
This year’s report focuses upon many of the key metrics that we have monitored in previous years, as well as newer analyses such as how companies consider their pen…
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Buy-outs and Buy-ins Report 2015
Following a record-breaking year in 2014 where over £13bn of bulk annuity transactions were completed, experience over the first half of 2015 suggests another poten…
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Accounting for Pension Costs Survey 31 December 2014
Our 14th annual survey of pension disclosures made by FTSE100 companies has revealed that the average IAS19 discount rate for pension obligations has decreased to 3…
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Big Schemes £1bn+ Survey 2015
Our third annual survey of private sector DB schemes in the UK with assets of over £1bn covers around 170 schemes and focuses on scheme type, asset allocation, inve…
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European companies with UK defined benefit schemes 2015
The costs and risks associated with UK DB pension schemes are well known within the industry. Our reports analyse the contributions paid, levels of deficit and leve…
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University Accounting Survey - July 2014
This is our sixth annual survey of the assumptions adopted by UK universities for determining the value of their pension liabilities for accounting purposes.
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Impact of pension schemes on UK business - 2014
For many years we have read about the ever increasing pain that defined benefit (DB) pension schemes have piled onto employers, be it additional funding requirement…
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Accounting for Pension Costs Survey 31 December 2013
Our thirteenth annual survey of the assumptions adopted by FTSE100 companies for determining the value of their pension liabilities for accounting ...
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Dutch and German companies with UK defined benefit schemes
Following on from our research of French companies with UK DB schemes, we have carried out two further research reports for German and Dutch companies with UK DB sc…
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Annual Bulk Annuity Update 2014
As well as providing an update of the latest market activity in this report, we discuss the current market pricing and highlight some of the key issues that trustee…