{"id":636733,"date":"2026-08-14T12:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/636733\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T12:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:02:19","slug":"legal-generals-yield-looks-secure-despite-pension-transfer-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/636733\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal &#038; General\u2019s yield looks secure despite pension transfer pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/markets.investorschronicle.co.uk\/data\/equities\/tearsheet\/summary?s=LGEN:LSE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Legal &amp; General (LGEN)<\/strong><\/a> chief executive Ant\u00f3nio Sim\u00f5es has put the focus on share repurchases under his revamp of the group\u2019s capital returns policy. L&amp;G announced its first buyback for a decade soon after the new boss entered the fray in 2024, and the FTSE 100 insurance company is currently around \u00a3450mn through its latest \u00a31.2bn programme. <\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8488f0f0-96ff-11f1-923e-27bde298ac51-standard.png\" alt=\"Column chart of The \u00a31.2bn buyback is delivering around half this year's yield (%) showing Share buybacks have grown in importance under Sim\u00f5es\" data-type=\"Graphic\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In total, the group plans to return more than \u00a35bn to investors between 2025 and 2027. On the dividend front, guidance is for growth of 2 per cent each year over that period, down from the 5 per cent growth recorded in 2024. This stalwart income stock still has a forward dividend yield of more than 7 per cent, however, even though growing challenges in its key pension risk transfer (PRT) market cast a small shadow over the business. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legal &amp; General (LGEN) chief executive Ant\u00f3nio Sim\u00f5es has put the focus on share repurchases under his revamp&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[177],"tags":[79,18,6617,19,269057,17,234,235,16678,46229,47320],"class_list":["post-636733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-eire","tag-ftse-100","tag-ie","tag-income-investing-dividends","tag-ireland","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-special-reports","tag-standard-article","tag-stocks-shares"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117093764098384241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}