Pensions Aspects Magazine
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Are you ready to manage your pension scheme through a corporate crisis?
The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the new Insolvency Act and the Pension Regulator’s expectations make scheme management ever more challenging. High profile collapses have taught us the importance of robust contingency planning to help protect member outcomes. It is vital that practical steps are taken now to get trustees and schemes ready for every eventuality.
Read moreMending the holes of the pension pocket for the quantum workforce
COVID-19 has accelerated the disruption to the UK’s job market, catalysing an ongoing decline in permanent employment. Now, one in seven workers in the UK are on flexible contracts, up 25% over two decades. These workers are part of the growing quantum employment fleet, defined as a contractor working small, incremental jobs across a range of employers or end clients. Today, it is not uncommon for contractors to work just a morning or even a number of hours one day with one employer and then work double shifts later that week for a different client.
Read moreThe popularity of Professional Corporate Sole Trusteeship
Sole Trusteeship is growing and looks set to continue. There are drivers for this, but some are concerned about this development resulting in higher costs, more employer focus than member focus and the potential for trustees to go unchallenged. This article explains why these concerns are largely unfounded and ways to mitigate some concerns.
Read moreThe new normal for DB Pensions
It has, of course, become the new normal to talk about the new normal! But there have been so many changes affecting Defined Benefit (DB) pensions that grouping these by broad themes could be a worthwhile exercise.
Read moreTrustees: be ready to protect schemes from corporate distress
The International Monetary Fund has warned that the world economy faces a long, slow recovery from COVID-19 and it seems likely that some UK employers will start to struggle.
Read moreWhat’s that noise? Just another norm being shattered.
Unless you’ve been living in the proverbial cave for the last twelve months, it’s likely that your world has been turned upside down. The normal way of going about our business and private lives has had to change.
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