Comment: Remember, remember the fifth of November

Jonathan Stapleton urges the industry to remember Maxwell

Jonathan Stapleton
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On 5 November it will be twenty years since Robert Maxwell died after falling overboard from his yacht in 1991 and it was discovered £450m of investments were missing from the pension funds of his companies.

TPAT chairman Alan Herbert believes it is crucial the industry does not forget those events. He says: "It is important to remind the current generation of pension professionals and trustees of t...

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