{"id":125247,"date":"2019-06-29T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/insurance-giants-in-talks-to-buyout-10-5bn-british-steel-pension-scheme\/"},"modified":"2019-06-29T20:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T20:00:30","slug":"insurance-giants-in-talks-to-buyout-10-5bn-british-steel-pension-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/insurance-giants-in-talks-to-buyout-10-5bn-british-steel-pension-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance giants in talks to buyout \u00a310.5bn British Steel Pension Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/GettyImages-493345446.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The board of the \u00a310.5bn British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) are in talks with a number of insurance giants to sell it.<\/p>\n<p>Trustees of the BSPS have begun discussions to offload the scheme two years after receiving \u00a3550m to rescue the steel firm, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/trustees-plot-10-5bn-buyout-of-vast-british-steel-pension-scheme-11751281\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/financial-conduct-authority-to-crack-down-on-unacceptable-defined-benefit-pension-transfer-advice\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FCA crack down on defined benefit pension transfer advice <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The outcome will determine where the responsibility for paying more than 80,000 pensions lie.<\/p>\n<p>It would be the biggest deal involving a corporate retirement fund, surpassing the \u00a34.6bn agreement reached by Rolls Royce Holdings and Legal &amp; General earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Rothesay Life, L&amp;G and Pension Insurance Corporation are among the parties thought to be interested in completing a deal. All declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Talks are at a preliminary stage with a deal not likely to be agreed until next year, a source told Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>It comes two years after Tata Steel injected \u00a3550m into the UK business in return for the Indian firms pension scheme being switched to a defined contribution plan with reduced benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Tata, which has just seen a merger with Germanys Thyssenkrupp blocked by Brussels, warned in 2017 that without an agreement to jettison and restructuring the BSPS, its UK steel operations would be bankrupt.<\/p>\n<p>More than 85 per cent of members transferred to the new plan, but an inquiry from the Financial Conduct Authority left it embroiled in controversy after it found over 800 steelworkers had been persuaded to give up guaranteed pensions and move out of the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme now has a \u00a32.2bn non-cash accounting surplus disclosed in 2018, prompting calls f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/insurance-giants-in-talks-for-buyout-of-10-5bn-british-steel-pension-scheme\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/loopup.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cityam-logo.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CityAM<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The board of the \u00a310.5bn British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) are in talks with a number of insurance..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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