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Long term funding: start with the end in mind
06 January 2021

Long term funding: start with the end in mind

As we emerge from a COVID world, setting long-term funding targets is a key 2021 focus for trustees. Galvanised by The Pensions Regulator (TPR)’s. new Defined Benefit (DB) funding code of practice, trustees and sponsors need to pay acute attention to the maturing status of their DB schemes. TPR expects trustees to determine a clear journey plan towards a lower risk position as they close in on their goal.

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Lessons to learn from experience for pension schemes
06 January 2021

Lessons to learn from experience for pension schemes

A recent survey carried out by Barnett Waddingham asked trustees to identify the risks they were most concerned about for their schemes. It also asked trustees to share their experience of the types of risk events that had crystallised for their schemes over the past three years.

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Everyone craves a bit of normality
06 January 2021

Everyone craves a bit of normality

When the Department of Work and Pensions announced plans to use the Simpler Annual Statement as an industry standard, some schemes insisted that their whizzy, innovative communication was better. But maybe a predictable vanilla flavour of communication is what members really need.

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That was then, and this is now
06 January 2021

That was then, and this is now

By the time this article goes to press it will be a new year filled with new resolutions, new promise, new diets, debts and new rules about who you can meet and where. It certainly has been a year like no other. Brexit and, most acutely, COVID-19 have dominated the headlines, the national political agenda and the UK pensions industry: the consequences of both events will set the scene for what will be the ‘new normal’ for the years ahead.

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Thirty years within the Pensions Management Institute
13 November 2020

Thirty years within the Pensions Management Institute

I suspect many of you reading this, like me, fell into the pension’s profession by accident.

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I work in pensions…still!
13 November 2020

I work in pensions…still!

My passionate love of maths and problem-solving is why I work in pensions. And my desire to be different and tireless pursuit of my passion is why I work in PR. I’m an extrovert in an introvert’s skin, after all!

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Thirty years within the Pensions Management Institute
13 November 2020

Thirty years within the Pensions Management Institute

I suspect many of you reading this, like me, fell into the pension’s profession by accident.

Read more
I work in pensions…still!
13 November 2020

I work in pensions…still!

My passionate love of maths and problem-solving is why I work in pensions. And my desire to be different and tireless pursuit of my passion is why I work in PR. I’m an extrovert in an introvert’s skin, after all!

Read more
Long term funding: start with the end in mind
06 January 2021

Long term funding: start with the end in mind

As we emerge from a COVID world, setting long-term funding targets is a key 2021 focus for trustees. Galvanised by The Pensions Regulator (TPR)’s. new Defined Benefit (DB) funding code of practice, trustees and sponsors need to pay acute attention to the maturing status of their DB schemes. TPR expects trustees to determine a clear journey plan towards a lower risk position as they close in on their goal.

Read more
Lessons to learn from experience for pension schemes
06 January 2021

Lessons to learn from experience for pension schemes

A recent survey carried out by Barnett Waddingham asked trustees to identify the risks they were most concerned about for their schemes. It also asked trustees to share their experience of the types of risk events that had crystallised for their schemes over the past three years.

Read more
Everyone craves a bit of normality
06 January 2021

Everyone craves a bit of normality

When the Department of Work and Pensions announced plans to use the Simpler Annual Statement as an industry standard, some schemes insisted that their whizzy, innovative communication was better. But maybe a predictable vanilla flavour of communication is what members really need.

Read more
That was then, and this is now
06 January 2021

That was then, and this is now

By the time this article goes to press it will be a new year filled with new resolutions, new promise, new diets, debts and new rules about who you can meet and where. It certainly has been a year like no other. Brexit and, most acutely, COVID-19 have dominated the headlines, the national political agenda and the UK pensions industry: the consequences of both events will set the scene for what will be the ‘new normal’ for the years ahead.

Read more