Marsh Defined Benefit (DB) pensions quarterly webinars
Welcome to the Marsh Defined Benefit (DB) pensions quarterly webinar series.
Each quarter you can join live sessions designed to help Sponsors and Trustees navigate the evolving landscape of DB pensions. The events are drop-in webinars with attendees choosing which sessions are of relevance to them.
Each webinar will begin with detailed Economic Overview and DB Market Updates, highlighting key macroeconomic trends including interest rates, inflation, funding levels, and the current liability and asset pricing environment. Following these updates there will be 30-minute sessions on topics which are highly relevant to DB schemes.
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Recordings of all sessions can be found below.
Next event
DB Q4 webinar
Date - 3 December 2026
Time - 9.30am - 11.30 am
Agenda
9.30 – 9.45 Economic overview
9.45 – 10.00 DB market update
10.00 – 10.30 How to have your cake and eat it
When a well-funded pension scheme is approaching buyout, trustees have a strong funding position, but the sponsor has an accounting surplus that investors do not fully recognise. This session will present an innovative solution showing how trustees can keep their cake in the scheme by running it on at buyout level funding, while at the same time, sponsors can eat their cake by unlocking the value of their accounting surplus to increase market capitalisation, reduce net debt and improve credit metrics.
10.30 – 11.00 Taking the sting out of strategic data projects
This session will take you through some of the pitfalls of strategic data projects, with a particular focus on getting from buy-in to buy-out. We will look at some of the issues the market faces, but also some different solutions where we have had to think strategically about how we can carry out some complex data work while still sitting within wider trustee and corporate objectives. We’ll also think about how we look at data and benefits through the lens of surplus distribution.
11.00 – 11.30 Double double
We’ve already seen 2026 double the number of superfund deals, and double the number of superfund providers. Join us as we discuss with a panel of providers what these latest developments mean for the superfund market as it stands in 2026, and what might be to come in 2027.
We look forward to you joining us.
Registration link
Time - 9.30am - 11.30 am
Agenda
9.30 – 9.45 Economic overview
9.45 – 10.00 DB market update
10.00 – 10.30 How to have your cake and eat it
When a well-funded pension scheme is approaching buyout, trustees have a strong funding position, but the sponsor has an accounting surplus that investors do not fully recognise. This session will present an innovative solution showing how trustees can keep their cake in the scheme by running it on at buyout level funding, while at the same time, sponsors can eat their cake by unlocking the value of their accounting surplus to increase market capitalisation, reduce net debt and improve credit metrics.
10.30 – 11.00 Taking the sting out of strategic data projects
This session will take you through some of the pitfalls of strategic data projects, with a particular focus on getting from buy-in to buy-out. We will look at some of the issues the market faces, but also some different solutions where we have had to think strategically about how we can carry out some complex data work while still sitting within wider trustee and corporate objectives. We’ll also think about how we look at data and benefits through the lens of surplus distribution.
11.00 – 11.30 Double double
We’ve already seen 2026 double the number of superfund deals, and double the number of superfund providers. Join us as we discuss with a panel of providers what these latest developments mean for the superfund market as it stands in 2026, and what might be to come in 2027.
We look forward to you joining us.
Registration link
On demand
September 2026
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June 2026
April 2026
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