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Jonathan Stapleton

Jonathan Stapleton

Jonathan is editor of Professional Pensions and Workplace Savings & Benefits (WSB).

He started work as a journalist on a capital markets magazine called Central European in 2000 before joining an internet start-up called ii-Q.com, a pensions news service.

Jonathan joined Professional Pensions in July 2001 and has been there, barring a nine month sabbatical in 2004, ever since. He launched PP Online in 2006, became deputy editor of Professional Pensions in 2008, editor in 2009, launched WSB in 2012 and became editor-in-chief of both brands in 2014.

Jonathan has won a number of awards throughout his career - most recently the Society of Pension Professionals' Journalist of the Year Award 2019 - and is holder of the Pension Management Institute's Retirement Provision Certificate.

Outside of pensions, Jonathan enjoys spending time with his son, helping to run a Scout troop and trying (unsuccessfully so far) to improve his very sluggish 5km running time.

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Articles by Jonathan Stapleton

Industry

The £2.5bn a year cost of pensions consulting

Jonathan Stapleton comments on the cost of pensions consulting and asks if consolidation will drive this down.

clock 09 May 2018 • 2 min read

Defined Benefit

Getting to grips with integrated risk management

Simon Hart and Rob Archer look at how integrated risk management can improve a scheme's governance process and raise standards

clock 08 May 2018 • 4 min read

Investment

Investment considerations from TPR's annual funding statement

Abhishek Srivastav explains why he believes the regulator's annual funding statement strengthens the case for a cash-flow driven investment approach

clock 08 May 2018 • 3 min read

Industry

Capita EB posts fall in revenue and profits; lost contracts and DB decline to blame

Capita Employee Benefits has posted a 6.4% slide in revenue and 40% drop in operating profits across its two main pension businesses in 2017 as the result of lost contracts, legal settlements and a decline in guaranteed minimum pension (GMP) and defined...

clock 04 May 2018 • 2 min read

Industry

Pensions and Benefits UK: Over 600 attending so far - have you registered yet?

Delegate places at Pensions and Benefits UK (PBUK) are filling up fast - with over 600 scheme representatives having registered for PP's flagship event so far.

clock 03 May 2018 • 1 min read

Industry

Aon Hewitt and Capita EB publish 2017 accounts

Aon Hewitt has become the first of the big three UK pension consultancy firms to release its 2017 accounts - reporting revenues of £317.6m in the year to 31 December.

clock 03 May 2018 • 2 min read

Appointments

JLT hires Wray in move to strengthen IC and FM offering

JLT Employee Benefits has hired Michael Wray as its chief operating officer and director of strategic investment solutions in a bid to strengthen its investment consulting and fiduciary management offering.

clock 02 May 2018 • 1 min read

Industry

UPDATE: Conduent sells Buck Consultants to H.I.G. Capital

Conduent has announced it is to sell its human resource consulting and actuarial business - the part of the firm formerly known as Buck Consultants - to private equity investor, H.I.G. Capital.

clock 02 May 2018 • 1 min read

Law and Regulation

MP urges government to take action over pension clawback as result of contracting out errors

The prospect of public sector workers losing some of their pension because of mistakes made by the government is "disgraceful", the Liberal Democrat work and pensions spokesman says.

clock 01 May 2018 • 1 min read

Industry

Latest issue - 3 May

This week's edition of Professional Pensions is out now

clock 30 April 2018 • 1 min read
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