Mobius Life collaborates with KPMG GI to power small pension scheme buyouts

01 April 2019

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Mobius Life

Small well-funded defined benefit (DB) pension schemes could secure attractive buy-out terms thanks to an innovative collaboration between KPMG Group Insurance (KPMG GI) and Mobius Life.

Small well-funded defined benefit (DB) pension schemes could secure attractive buy-out terms thanks to an innovative collaboration between KPMG Group Insurance (KPMG GI) and Mobius Life.

Many schemes, wanting to secure their members’ future through buy-out, are unable to do so as insurers are not able to offer them bulk annuities on competitive terms.

Now KPMG GI and Mobius Life have collaborated to enable small schemes to ‘notionally’ combine to get their collective liabilities to a size where they are an attractive bulk annuity proposition for an insurer. The solution offers schemes’ advisers more choice of insurer and faster implementation.

Under the collaboration KPMG GI supports the scheme and its advisers by being the interface to the market. Mobius Life uses its institutional pension platform to provide asset transfer services to ensure that the schemes’ assets are buy-out ready.

The schemes do not consolidate their liabilities. Each individual scheme’s benefit structure is maintained and receives its own insurance policy. Mobius Life and KPMG GI will collaborate when it is in the best interests of schemes to achieve buy-out.

The arrangement is not exclusive, and both firms will work with other providers and advisers to support their clients.

Adrian Swales, Chief Executive, Mobius Life says:“Our collaboration with KPMG GI offers an innovative solution to DB schemes
which would benefit from buy-out but are too small to secure competitive terms. We believe that many of the UK’s DB schemes with strong funding positions and supportive trustees could benefit.”

James Staveley-Wadham, Senior Manager, Pensions Insurance, KPMG GI said: “There is a significant number of well-funded pension schemes that would benefit from moving to buy-out. At the same time insurers are unable to provide quotes for all these schemes.

“We can now help these schemes by joining them together through KPMG GI, along with having their assets on the Mobius Life platform, so that they are an attractive proposition to an insurer.”

 

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For further information, please contact:
Mike Lord, Mobius Life
E: [email protected]
M: +44 (0)7831 401 311

Notes to Editors:
Mobius Life (www.mobiuslife.co.uk) is a UK life insurance company and institutional investment platform, established in 1996, with over £16 billion assets under administration. We deliver made-to-measure investment administration and life company services to DB and DC pension funds, asset managers and other institutions. Mobius Life empowers investors to implement investment strategies efficiently in a cost effective manner.

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