So, after much drama, the UK and EU finally reached agreement on Christmas Eve on the key aspects of their future trading relationship following the UK’s exit from the EU. In the absence of traditional pantomim...
I am not sure anyone could have predicted quite the year that 2020 would turn out to be. This is a personal perspective on what has happened over the past 12 months. The start of the year would have seen a numb...
A Freedom of Information request sent to the Department for Education by Broadstone on 14 December has revealed that 207 independent schools have left the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) since the start of Janua...
Cashflow Driven Investing (CDI) is an investment approach that helps defined benefit pension schemes with their funding efforts and can increase their likelihood of continuing to meet both their future cashflow...
It is easy to write something being a naysayer. That said I shall press on regardless. There appears to be a lack of clarity and consistency from those that set the regulatory and legal landscape in which trust...
So what does phased withdrawal involve? One of the many frustrations that independent schools regularly express regarding the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) is the fact that it has not been possible to simply ‘...
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...
We submitted our response to The Pensions Regulator (TPR) on its thinking behind a new Defined Benefit (DB) Funding Code. In general we are supportive of the direction of travel TPR are going in. However, there...
As the government starts to taper down and wind up the financial support available via the furlough scheme, many believe more firms will start to take some tough decisions which could make job losses inevitable...
