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| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Highly Commended |
| Innovation | Pension funding partnership structures |
| Originality | 7 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 7 |
| Total | 20 |
| Description | Developed a structure in which the employer transfers assets to a partnership that uses those assets to generate income by leasing them back to the employer. This solution has been rolled out to a number of blue-chip UK companies. |
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Stand-out |
| Innovation | Pension deficit for equity swap for Uniq |
| Originality | 7 |
| Rationale | 7 |
| Impact | 7 |
| Total | 21 |
| Description | Faced with a £400m (€461m) pensions deficit that threatened the company’s survival, the firm invented a life-saving transaction. Transferred 90 per cent of Uniq’s equity to a new company, to be sold for the benefit of the pension scheme. |
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