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DB pension liability hedge hits £657bn

Open-access content Monday 29th June 2015

Liability driven investment (LDI) continues to “grow significantly” in the UK with hedged liabilities increasing by 29% to £657bn last year, according to a report by KPMG.

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LDI is an investment strategy to prioritise funding for future liabilities "rather than simply delivering a positive investment return". It is normally used to protect assets against volatility in the market instead of seeking returns. 

The firm explained the demand for LDI was driven by recent pension reforms, which increased the requests for pension scheme transfer values. As a result, risk management strategies have become more popular.

Simeon Willis, head of investment strategy at KPMG, said: "The pension freedoms offered within last year's budget have significantly shaken things up. This will no doubt have an impact on how and when benefits are taken from defined benefit (DB) schemes and the shape of the LDI exposures. 

"My guess is that the potential increased volume of members transferring their benefits out of DB arrangements, and crystallising 100% of the value using the market conditions at that time, will lead to a greater demand for trustees to use LDI going forward."

Of the £147bn increase, £32bn came from new mandates and extensions of existing mandates; the remaining £115bn came from market movements such as yields falling. 

KPMG's fifth annual report on LDI found overall mandates increased by 25% from 825 to 1,033 in 2014. 

The report found an increase of 208 new mandates. Of those, 151 were pooled and 57 were segregated. The firm said for the first time, there were more pooled mandates than segregated. 

However, the report said despite the growth, the value of liability hedged in pooled mandates only made up 7.3% of the market. This is because pooled mandates usually represent smaller schemes - those less than £50m.

Pension schemes within the £50m-£500m and the £500m-£5bn size range saw the biggest uptake of LDI over 2014 in value terms, according to the report.

This article appeared in our June 2015 issue of The Actuary.
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