The funding regime for Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes is changing and there are significant implications for the sponsors of those schemes. Make sure you engage with your trustees at an early stage to avo...
Funding DB schemes is becoming ever more challenging Many employers with a defined benefit (DB) workplace pension scheme struggle to cope with the connected funding costs. Where the employer has chosen to maint...
In this surreal and unsettling world dominated by changes to cope with COVID-19, the term “new normal” has gained common usage. In so many ways the norms around the way the world operated before the virus struc...
We are by now well used to news stories on climate change and its effects on weather and our environment. The growth in the number of severe weather events such as hurricanes, heavy rainfall and droughts, and t...
Regulatory involvement with the stewardship of companies is not new. The widespread benefits of good corporate governance have long been recognised. So also have the temptations to relegate those wider benefits...
Ever since employers started moving away from defined benefit (DB) pension promises for their employees there have been challenges to ensure that people have sufficient income when they finally cease remunerate...
The term ‘Black Friday’ was coined in Philadelphia, United States, in the 1960s where the chaos of post-Thanksgiving traffic caused congestion and even violence in downtown shopping areas. Obviously the retaile...
Broadstone, one of the UK’s leading employee benefits and pensions consulting businesses, has announced the acquisition of Bristol-based BBS Consultants & Actuaries. Further strengthening its position in th...
Since our last blog posting back in March, things have moved on considerably with regard to the participation of independent schools within the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS). We have had meetings with a ...