The Mercer UK Pension Buyout Index allows you to monitor the general trend in the pricing of pension annuity transactions in the UK.
Mercer uses up-to-date pricing information from each country to estimate the cost of insuring a sample plan’s current retirees as a percentage of the equivalent estimated accounting liability. The information contained in this report is not based on information specific to your circumstances and approximations have been used. Past experience is no guarantee of future pricing and experience may vary for your plan.
*Data to 28 February 2022’
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The chart shows estimated annuity prices from insurers as a percentage of accounting liability in each of the five countries. For example, where a line is at the 113% level, this means that Mercer expects the average price of a pension annuity transaction for current retirees to be broadly 13% higher than the equivalent accounting liabilities.
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