This week’s top stories included Barnett Waddingham’s appointment of eight partners, while British Airways Pensions announced the outsource of in-house investment operations to BlackRock.
Intensifying regulation, rising operational costs, and increasingly complex investments were cited by the beleaguered airline.
British Airways Pensions has transferred management of its two main retirement systems totaling nearly $30.4 billion (£21.5 billion) in assets to the outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) business at BlackRock.
The transfer is among the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom, the firm said Wednesday. The agreement affects assets under the Airways Pension Scheme (APS) and the New Airways Pension Scheme (NAPS), as well as more than 85,000 members.
“This agreement is the necessary next step in the evolution of the Schemes as they look to enhance their respective investment strategies, working toward their funding goals,” Roger Maynard, chair of trustees at APS and NAPS, said in a statement.
By Susanna Rust2021-06-01T10:36:00+01:00
A UK pension scheme of travel agency company TUI has agreed two pension risk transfer transactions for £794m (€921m) with Legal & General Assurance Society Limited.
The deals comprise a £610m partial buy-in for the BAL section of the TUI Group UK Pension Trust, and a £184m full buy-in for the TAPS section of the scheme. There are three pension sections within the scheme.
Mike Roberts from PAN Trustees, chair of the trustee board, said the transaction had concluded at attractive pricing, closing the gap to being fully funded and providing increased security of benefits for members of the scheme.