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Building portfolios for the future through sustainable investing: enduring COVID-19 and beyond
08 June 2020

Building portfolios for the future through sustainable investing: enduring COVID-19 and beyond

Demand for sustainable investing is growing. From identifying and implementing clean sources of energy to emission friendly transportation and medical needs, vast swathes of industry are adapting to meet growing consumer demand from both individual and professional investors.

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Pensions Aspects June 2020
07 June 2020

Pensions Aspects June 2020

Investing with a conscience. Read the latest issue on pension scheme sustainability and development.

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Professional trusteeship accreditation
18 May 2020

Professional trusteeship accreditation

I passed, what was then the PMI Associate exams, in 1990, to have the hard fought for initials APMI after my name. At the time, I thought that having passed these I would not be doing any more pension exams in my working life.

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Marriage under the microscope
11 May 2020

Marriage under the microscope

Marriage matters to Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes. This is because typically they pay survivor pensions to the spouse, or qualifying dependant, of members after they have died. To value these pensions, schemes need to know (a) what proportion of members have an eligible dependant and (b) the age difference between members and their dependants (since younger dependants are likely to live longer).

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Cyber security: lock it down
11 May 2020

Cyber security: lock it down

Everything’s relative. Back in 2014, when a surprise budget gave us the ‘overnight transformation’ of the pension industry, we thought we’d seen the ultimate shock to the system. From the 2020 vantage point, 2014’s ‘biggest shake up in a century’ looks like a long, slow and well-planned walk in an entirely predictable park. Now, we’re looking at actual overnight transformation - necessity has driven the world online on a massively  accelerated timetable and cyber attacks are running a close second to COVID-19 in the global headlines.

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Defined Benefit Master Trusts as a consolidator?
11 May 2020

Defined Benefit Master Trusts as a consolidator?

Pension scheme consolidation has been on the government’s agenda for a while now, and the Pensions Regulator has said that people saving for their retirement are better served by big schemes than by small ones. The Regulator feels that larger schemes can benefit from economies of scale, more effective and efficient investment strategies and improved governance.

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