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Buy-out

\baɪ\-\aʊt\

The purchase of bulk annuities by a pension plan resulting in passing all the governance and control of the assets to the insurance company.

In the UK a buy-out must be in respect of all participants of a pension plan. In the US and Canada, it is possible to buy-out a subsection of the plan.

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