IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/rdg/icmadp/icma-dp2005-09.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Merging Schemes: An Ecomomic Analysis of Defined Benefit Pension Scheme Merger Criteria

Author

Listed:
  • Charles Sutcliffe

    (ICMA Centre, University of Reading)

Abstract

The conditions under which pension schemes merge is an important issue that has been under-researched. Mergers can affect the strength of the sponsor's covenant and the balance of power between the trustees and the sponsor, as well as the scheme funding ratio. This paper sets out two financial criteria to be met by any pension scheme merger:- no profit or loss on merging with another scheme; and no dilution of the funding ratio. After defining a merger basis for valuing the assets and liabilities, and allowing for adjustments to the funding ratio via side receipts and payments; it is shown that, whether or not these criteria are met, depends on the state of the financial markets

Suggested Citation

  • Charles Sutcliffe, 2005. "Merging Schemes: An Ecomomic Analysis of Defined Benefit Pension Scheme Merger Criteria," ICMA Centre Discussion Papers in Finance icma-dp2005-09, Henley Business School, University of Reading.
    • Handle: RePEc:rdg:icmadp:icma-dp2005-09
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/pdf/discussion/DP2005-09.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rdg:icmadp:icma-dp2005-09. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Marie Pearson (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/bsrdguk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.