Supremex Inc., a leading North American manufacturer and marketer of envelopes and a growing provider of paper-based packaging solutions, today announced the purchase of a $46 million CAD group annuity buy-in with RBC Life Insurance Company.Read More

A Legal & General executive says the pipeline for 2020 looks great.Read More

Plan sponsors will need to consider whether in 2020, as in 2019, stock market returns will be great enough to offset rising liabilities from interest rate decreases.Read More

Amid market volatility and a desire to limit the costs and downside risks associated with their pension plans, sponsors are reconsidering their approaches and talking with insurers about options they may not have previously considered.Read More

Steel producer AK Steel has purchased a group annuity contract from Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company to transfer approximately $615 million of its pension obligations.Read More

Legal & General Retirement America’s Pension Risk Transfer Monitor shows the U.S. pension risk transfer (PRT) market has remained very active throughout the first three quarters of 2019.Read More

The number of pension risk transfer deals, including those involving full plan terminations, is expected to rise this year, sources said.Read More

As employers wrestle with how to best mitigate the financial risks associated with sponsoring defined benefit (DB) pension plans, they should weigh the relative benefits of limiting versus eliminating those risks over time, according to a new white paper from MassMutual, “Key Decisions for De-Risking Your Pension Plan.”Read More

What can advisors glean from the recent popularity spike of the perennially disparaged variable annuity? Though their origins can be traced back to the Roman Empire, annuities have been historically underutilized by advisors. But that could be changing, panelists told attendees at Pershing's annual Insite conference.Read More

There are some striking differences between the European and American scenes when it comes to pension plan management. The more long-term and strategic approach typically embodied by private pension plans in the U.K. has allowed those plans to be early adopters of LDI and other forms of de-risking. Plans in the U.S. are playing catch-up.Read More