Pilkington Group Limited is a multinational glass manufacturing company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Sheet Glass (>> Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited), PIC said in a statement.

The lead adviser on the deal was Aon Hewitt, PIC said.

A deal to pass on some of the insurance risk of defined benefit, or final salary, company schemes through a so-called 'buy-in', is often easier to price than a deal for all of the risk, a so-called 'buy-out', pension consultants say.

"There has been a tangible increase in interest from trustees in buy-ins since the Brexit referendum and we have completed a number of transactions over the past few weeks and expect more to follow," Uzma Nazir, actuary at PIC said.

(Reporting by Carolyn Cohn; editing by Simon Jessop)

Stocks treated in this article : Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited, Aon PLC