Record Pension Deals Send Profits Soaring at Legal & General

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Record pension transfers boosted first half profit at Legal & General Group Plc as the insurer benefits from U.K. companies seeking to transfer responsibility for paying their retirees.

Operating profit rose to 1 billion pounds ($1.22 billion) in the six months through June as the firm expands its annuity book, it said in a statementBloomberg Terminal. Legal & General wins much of the pension-transfer business, partly because it has few rivals for the deals.