Increasingly, older occupational trust-based schemes are on the decline. Most will be on a derisking journey, ultimately leading to the end of a scheme’s life and to wind-up. Strategic restructuring, mergers or insolvency may also mean that wind-up needs to be thought about earlier than expected, where these intercept the planned derisking journey. This forces trustees and sponsoring employers, who are constantly considering how best to manage the risk and costs involved in continuing to run an older occupational scheme, to think about when their scheme’s life will end.
Winding-up an occupational scheme can be an involved and complex process. In recognition of this, Towers Watson has developed Twilight, a service to advise and support the