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Kingfisher Pension Scheme inks £900m bulk annuity with Aviva

2021-07-22T14:45:00Z

Deal insures liabilities associated with more than 8,000 members

Kingfisher insures £200m in deal with PIC

2018-04-25T14:28:00Z

£4bn pension scheme of building supplies group has now insured more than 10% of its liabilities

Kingfisher turns to L&G for £228m medically underwritten buy-in

2016-03-23T12:43:00Z

Largest single transaction to date in medically underwritten market

How we run our money: The Kingfisher Pension Scheme

January 2016 (Magazine)

The Kingfisher Pension Scheme’s head of pensions, Dermot Courtier, and pension investment manager, Matt Fuller, talk about the fund’s path to self-sufficiency

Aviva’s move into BPA market proves profitable

2022-08-11T14:14:00Z

Aviva is already a significant writer of UK bulk annuity business, ranking in the top four in 2020

UK roundup: Kingfisher, Wedlake Bell, ATP, Now Pensions, Xafinity

2011-09-16T12:45:00Z

Kingfisher pays DB scheme £100m (€114m), allowing trustees to invest in property partnership.

Kingfisher picks PIMCO for fixed income brief

2006-11-07T15:50:02Z

UK – European retailer Kingfisher has appointed specialist fixed-income manager PIMCO to run a £96m (€134m) segregated bond mandate for its €1.372bn (£864m) pension scheme.

Kingfisher goes 130/30 under new pensions head

2007-10-31T15:00:00Z

[16:00 CET 31-10] UK – The £1.3bn (€1.9bn) The Kingfisher defined benefit scheme will now deploy a new pensions head to find a suitable manager for its move into 130/30 strategies.

L&G sees 2021 pension risk transfer volumes ending up at £25bn

2021-08-06T12:52:00Z

Around £5bn of bulk annuity transactions have been publicly declared so far this year 

People moves: L&G appoints Kingfisher's Courtier to lead trust

2017-03-02T12:27:00Z

L&G Mastertrust, Kingfisher, AFM, Aon Hewitt, Actiam, Bank of England, Robeco, Schroders, Henderson, BTIG, Guggenheim, Spence Johnson, PMI

SSGA wins e591m Kingfisher passive mandate

2003-03-25T03:35:00Z

UK – European retailer Kingfisher has appointed State Street Global Advisors to run a 400 million pound (591 million euro) multi-asset passive mandate for its pension scheme.

Kingfisher selects State Street

January 1998 (Magazine)

Wednesday people roundup [updated]

2015-07-22T11:46:00Z

Old Mutual Global Investors, Towers Watson, LCP, Kingfisher, CVC Credit Partners, GE Capital, Amundi

Cost Transparency Initiative delivers new tools ahead of ‘final push’

2020-06-19T14:30:00Z

New resources include real estate investments guidance and private equity mapping guidance

One-third of FTSE 100 companies have carried out derisking deals

2019-10-09T15:09:00Z

Aon: Figures indicate high-profile UK businesses are paying increasing attention to pensions risks

Strategically Speaking: Aviva Investors

October 2021 (Magazine)

Insurance-owned asset managers can be difficult to pigeonhole. Some have forged strong specialisms, often in fixed income, but now also in alternatives like property or niche credit. Others have remained a corporate backwater absorbed by group general-account assets.

Top pension schemes back industry cost reporting initiative

2019-09-05T11:54:00Z

USS, Royal Mail, RBS and seven others pen letter endorsing new industry cost disclosure standard

Arrow acquires logistics asset in Poland from M7

Reference Hub2020-07-01T08:46:00ZBy M7 Real Estate Ltd

Arrow Capital Partners, the investor and operator of real estate in Europe and Asia-Pacific, has acquired the prime urban logistics asset, Airport House, in Warsaw, for its $3 billion European Strategic Industrial Real Estate (“SIRE”) platform. The asset has been sold by M7 Real Estate (“M7”) the pan-European investor and asset manager, on behalf of PVBRI, a work-out investment vehicle created by M7 and a Polish Bank to stabilise and turnaround a financially challenged portfolio of industrial, office and retail investments.

Toshiba offloads UK scheme in £170m buyout deal

2018-05-03T07:45:00Z

Rothesay Life backs transaction insuring benefits for 1,350 staff

Siemens insures £1.3bn of liabilities with Pension Corporation

2018-07-04T11:20:00Z

Hymans Robertson predicts ‘record year’ for de-risking market