Industry needs to work together to sort out GMPs
As schemes might struggle to find information about members who are due top-ups to past transfers due to guaranteed minimum pensions equalisation, the industry is being called on to work together and ...
27 Marras 202016min
Regulatory uncertainty puts workforce reform at risk
The apparent contradiction between the Treasury’s new exit payment cap and existing Local Government Pension Scheme regulations risks limiting employers’ ability to restructure their workforce, warns ...
12 Marras 202020min
Three-step plan to fix NHS scheme
The plethora of administrative maladies facing the NHS pension scheme should be addressed by a three stage approach: capping the problem; a reactive process prioritising those closest to retirement; a...
23 Loka 202018min
PPF eyes DB sponsors' deteriorating credit ratings
Deteriorating defined benefit sponsor health has led to a three-fold increase in the level of liabilities belonging to schemes that could end up in the Pension Protection Fund over the next 18 months....
9 Loka 202021min
Arguments for DC consolidation stronger than for DB
The pace of defined contribution consolidation could accelerate should we ever find ourselves on the other side of the coronavirus pandemic, as companies decide to outsource administration. But the pr...
25 Syys 202022min
DB schemes could be 'doomed to failure'
Defined benefit schemes could be “doomed to failure by measures that are designed to help them”, says Baroness Ros Altmann of the proposed new funding code. She is joined by SEI’s client strategy dire...
10 Syys 202028min
TPR to make changes to DB funding ‘fast-track’
The Pensions Regulator is going to make changes to its fast-track approach proposed in its defined benefit funding consultation due to the impact of Covid-19, revealed David Fairs, executive director ...
20 Elo 202022min
Schemes cannot eliminate chance of cyber breach
Pension schemes hold an extraordinary amount of personal data. Though trustees have done much since the passage of GDPR to improve data security, it is impossible to remove the risk of breaches entire...
24 Heinä 202022min
