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TPR guidance on UK DB scheme endgame options: governance innovations, capital-backed arrangements, superfunds and insurance; legal, risk and surplus extraction implications for trustees, with forthcoming Pension Schemes Bill reforms

Published on: 26 August 2025

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What is the background to TPR’s guidance?

As funding positions strengthen and market innovations come through, trustees and employers are encountering a wider suite of financial, governance and insurance tools to meet their schemes’ long-term aims. Insurer buy-out was once viewed as the definitive DB endgame, yet TPR has now confirmed it is not the only route. The guidance is intended to help trustees steer through emerging options, judge their suitability, and make informed choices that improve financial outcomes, strengthen governance and bolster member security. It also emphasises the relevance of scheme-specific circumstances and the importance of obtaining professional advice.

What are the key points, aspects, and themes of the guidance?

The guidance is framed around several core themes. Endgame planning is no longer a single-track journey, and trustees are encouraged to explore a spectrum of outcomes: aiming for self-sufficiency, continuing to run on the scheme, transferring to consolidators such as superfunds, or insuring benefits via buy-ins and buy-outs. Each route carries distinct characteristics, risks and benefits, so suitability must be tested against scheme size, maturity and funding levels. Governance features prominently too, with TPR pointing to solutions including fiduciary management, accredited professional trustees, sole trustees and DB master trusts...

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