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L&G completes £930m Tate & Lyle scheme buy-in


By Marek Handzel

Legal & General has completed a £930m full buy-in for members of the Tate & Lyle pension scheme. The deal means that all 6,700 members of the DB scheme are now covered by Legal & General, following on from a buy-in transaction that took place in 2012 for £347m, which covered some 1,900 members and insured 43 per cent of the scheme’s pensioner liabilities


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