UK Pension Regulator Issues New Guidance to Employers and Trustees for Pension Risk Transfers to “Superfunds”

For some time, the UK has been working to implement the concept of “superfunds” to consolidate defined benefit (“DB”) plans. We wrote about this early on here. In essence, a superfund would be akin to a collective defined benefit plan, and a plan transferring assets and liabilities to superfund would relieve the employer of the pension liabilities, at a cost expected to be less than that of a “buyout” or transfer to an insurance company. For that reason, once up and running – no transfers have...
By: Groom Law Group, Chartered

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