Video: KPMG's Simeon Willis and Simon Bentley of F&C discuss the economic barriers to schemes considering an LDI allocation, and how much incoming regulation could cost (5:46)

Video:  The CBI's head of pensions policy, Jim Bligh, tells Owen Walker what the regulator's statement means for schemes in the middle of tough funding talks (4:41)

Timber firm Arnold Laver secured a fixed price for its £45m buyout thanks to an enhanced transfer value (ETV) exercise and a long-term strategy of hedging risk

More than 40% of schemes will undergo a triennial actuarial valuation this year. Owen Walker assesses their main obstacles – and how to overcome them

Kodak’s filing for bankruptcy has left the UK scheme critically underfunded. Pippa Stephens looks at ways to minimise the risk of an overseas guarantor

Small schemes looking to derisk should ensure a high standard of data cleansing and carry out a mortality analysis to manage the costs involved, finds Pippa Stephens

LGIM's Michael Walsh explains how schemes are using derisking triggers to improve their liability-driven investment performance, in this edition of Investment Blueprint

From the Axa pension increase exchange deal to the M&S auto-enrolment trigger, Ian Smith looks back at how schemes have been confronting risk this year

The panel discusses the value of the longevity swaps bought by the Rolls-Royce and Pall funds, and how collateral and capital triggers can provide protection against some of the risks in these deals (6:13)

Hymans Robertson's Patrick Bloomfield tells Ian Smith how flexible drawdown can provide choice to members and to schemes a derisking option affecting as much as a third of their liabilities (4:25)