Charlie Finch highlights the positive climate for deferring buy-in payments
16 January 2012

Increasing pressure from shareholders to rid company books of pension liabilities is forcing schemes to opt to defer some of the cost of buy-in payments.

Charlie Finch, partner at LCP, said the market conditions also make now a good time for schemes to defer a substantial percentage of buy-in payments.

He said: "Schemes can benefit from having deferred payments fixed if the interest rate is in line with what it would have earned if it was invested."

Pensions Week
16 January 2012