Rolls-Royce offloads UK pension fund in £4.3bn deal with PIC

Rolls-Royce has sealed a £4.3bn deal with insurance specialist Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) to offload its UK pension scheme as the engineering giant presses ahead with simplifying its balance sheet. The deal, which was announced on Sunday, covers the remaining pension obligations of 36,000 members — including 15,000 current pensioners and 21,000 deferred members — and marks the largest pension risk transfer in the UK this year. It comes as the Tufan Erginbilgic, chief executive of the FTSE 100 darling, moves to slim...