Market Insights

As the fiduciary manager for Clara Pensions we are thrilled to support them on their journey as the UK’s first superfund. 

The Clara transaction illustrates innovation in the market and serves as an viable alternative for DB pension schemes as they approach their end-game.  For sponsoring employers, it provides the opportunity to move their pension scheme off their balance sheets whilst providing a high degree of security for it’s members. Lastly, we believe it has many potential benefits for scheme members given Clara’s ‘members-first’ ethos.  Find out more in the video below.

Pension schemes can purposely run-on and indeed take a longer journey to ultimate buy-out - we discuss how Van Lanschot Kempen’s FM+ solution, developed in co-operation with C-Suite Pension Strategies, creates a window of opportunity for surplus beyond a buy-out measure to be further built up and regularly released, for the benefit of pensioners, current employees and the sponsor, with the support of the trustees.