There is a lot of innovative thinking happening at the think tank level and in HM Treasury aimed at the pensions industry and in particular making best economic use of the invested assets. There are literall...
Pensions
We are proud to be ambassadors for the Pension Awareness Day campaign and we hosted a webinar on 19th October to discuss the challenge of the Cost of Living crisis. We were lucky to have a great panel of Amanda...
It’s been 6 months since the catchily named Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Conditions for Transfers) Regulations 2021 came into force (I’ll refer to this as “The Regs” from now on) and so I thought ...
It’s bring your dog to work day, so, the natural thing to do is write about pensions. As a nation of dog lovers (I have 2 dogs of my own) we need to share some of that love with your pension. More of us have pe...
Over the last decade the pensions population has virtually doubled to approximately 21 million. This massive growth in the flow of pensions contributions has inevitably placed responsibilities on all the stakeh...
Administration has often been viewed as the poor relation of the pension services available to Trustees. In football terms, we’re used to being like the referee – you need to have us to be able to play the game...
Since automatic enrolment was introduced in 2012, pension scheme participation has increased from 49% of employees in 2013 to 75% of employees in 2020. While this is a very positive development for employees of...
Ten years is a long time in most situations, but in the case of the last decade in the world pensions, it’s been game-changing – literally. Roll back the clock to 2010 or so, and as an employer, you had discret...
Pension scheme governance should not be viewed as a chore or even a tick box exercise – a message endorsed by all the pensions regulatory authorities. In fact, it should be approached with relish, recognising t...
