Abstract: A method of transferring risk from a pension scheme, comprising: a sponsoring entity acquiring a captive entity established to provide infrastructure to insure at least a portion of the pension scheme's liabilities; the sponsoring entity providing an amount of risk capital to the captive entity and an amount of capital to the pension scheme; the captive entity writing one or more contracts in favor of a counterparty to make payments dependent on the insured liabilities to the pension scheme members; calculating the insured liabilities to the pension scheme members; and causing an electronic payment of an amount dependent on the calculated insured liabilities to be executed to the counterparty. The captive entity may be demerged from the sponsoring entity by the sponsoring entity divesting at least a portion of the captive entity.