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NewsUK roundup: British American Tobacco scheme completes £250m buy-in deal
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Tobacco giant seals £3.4bn pension de-risking deal with PIC
Transaction accounts for the bulk of British American Tobacco’s UK DB pension fund, and is Pension Insurance Corporation’s biggest deal to date
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Long-awaited transition to happen despite complications of the Dutch pension system
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BAT scheme cuts trustee numbers to relieve sponsor
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More schemes leave Conduent for new providers
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Rothesay breaks another record with £3.8bn buy-in
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PepsiCo, Makro find new providers as Conduent exits Netherlands [updated]
Pension funds PepsiCo and Makro to follow Yara away from the administrator as it plans to exit the Netherlands
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BAT taps SWIP for bonds
UK - The British American Tobacco UK Pension Fund has selected Scottish Widows Investment Partnership to manage a 165 million-pound (248.8 million-euro) mixed bond mandate.
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Special ReportTop 1000 Pension Funds 2024: Pensions back at a sweet spot
Assets for the leading 1000 European pension funds grew by 8.7% year-on-year, reversing last year’s loss of 6.8%. This brings total assets back up to above their previous high water mark of €9.7trn in 2022’s research exercise. This year’s overall net gain in assets of €775bn is the largest since 2021’s increase of €810bn.
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