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Coats Group scheme completes £1.3bn buy-in deal with PIC
The deal covers 18,042 scheme members, as the plan sponsor makes upfront cash contribution of £70m to the scheme and a further £30m loan
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UK roundup: FRC expands Coats pension investigation
Latest monthly private sector DB deficit estimates give contrasting picture
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FRC investigates actuaries, accountants on Coats Group schemes
FRC probes conduct of unnamed professionals at schemes long scrutinised by Pensions Regulator
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UK roundup: London CIV, TPR, Coats Group, Vesuvius, PIC
Also: Regulator finalises settlement with Coats pension fund; Pension Corp seals buy-in with Vesuvius
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UK roundup: Pensions Regulator, Coats Group, FCA, DWP, MNOPF
TPR secures £255m payment for two pension schemes
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UK roundup: LGPS valuations, MNOPF, Coats, Unison, Pearson
Consultancy calls for portfolio-based approach for more transparent LGPS valuations
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UK roundup: Border to Coast reappoints Robeco for voting and engagement support
Plus: FTSE 350 pension scheme funding stabilises following Gilt market turmoil; Coats UK scheme completes buy-in with Aviva
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UK roundup: Guinness Peat, Coats, TPR, East Sussex Schroders Property
UK – Coats planning to double pension plan contributions in bid to tackle £100m deficit.
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Coats Pensions chairman Dow steps down
UK – Sam Dow, chairman of board of Coats Pensions Trustee Ltd., has stepped down to be replaced by Laurie Todd of Guinness Peat Group, according to the scheme’s web site.
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Coats awards €2.2bn actuarial brief to Mercer
GLOBAL – Textile firm Coats has named Mercer Human Resource Consulting as global actuary covering £1.5bn (€2.2bn) of pension assets.
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Guinness Peat warned in UK over scant resources for pension plan
Investment group to ‘vigorously defend’ position on Coats Pension Plan
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Wednesday people roundup
Coats, Unigestion, Insight Investment, M&G Investments, RBC Global Asset Management, Tikehau Capital
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Accounting round-up: FRC ups enforcement, focuses on DB accounting
Plus: IASB disclosure requirements project; FRC’s feedback statement on non-financial reporting
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It’s all a matter of timing
Market downturns and French pension reforms appear to co-incide. George Coats assesses the issues
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Reforming Norway's occupational pensions
George Coats assesses the impact of introducing a mandatory minimum pension in Norway
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Taking a leap in the dark
A reform of Greece’s first pillar leaves a lot still to be done, discovers George Coats
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A gradual transformation
The arena for consultants looks much the same from one year to the next but it is changing, George Coats finds
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Dipping a toe into diversification
Recent changes are broadening the horizons of traditionally conservative managers, George Coats finds
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After the bubble bursts
Spain’s banks were hit by the collapse of the local property market. And they control the pension funds, notes George Coats