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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

United Kingdom

UAR as compensation 'breaches human rights'

UK - Senior Tory and Labour MPs have held talks with the Unclaimed Assets Register over compensation for workers who lost pension savings when their firms failed.

clock 25 August 2004 •

United Kingdom

MPs' scheme closure is red herring: Wicks

UK - Backbench calls to close the Parliamentary Pension Scheme because it is too generous have been dismissed as a PR ruse by the pensions minister.

clock 22 January 2004 •

United Kingdom

Experts laugh down "token gesture" of DB scrap offer

UK - An offer by some MPs to scrap their final salary pensions has been rubbished as a "token gesture" by leading consultants.

clock 17 November 2003 •

Law and Regulation

MPs want to scrap DB scheme to 'avoid hypocrisy'

A handful of MPs want their own final salary scheme to be scrapped because it is "too generous".

clock 13 November 2003 •

United Kingdom

Fund deficits 'are hidden by current accounting rules'

UK - Some companies will be forced to wind up their pension scheme as an alternative to suspending dividends, former Labour minister Frank Field warns.

clock 09 May 2003 •

Law and Regulation

Myners backs two-tier system to help schemes

Former Gartmore chairman Paul Myners has conceded that a two-tier system is needed for compliance with his review's code of principles.

clock 13 December 2001 •

Defined Contribution

Fish friers hooked by Friends

The National Federation of Fish Friers (NFFF) has chosen Friends Provident to serve up its stakeholder scheme.

clock 19 July 2001 •

Defined Contribution

Morrisons closes final salary scheme to new members

Morrisons is to close it final salary scheme to new members in favour of a stakeholder run by HSBC.

clock 05 July 2001 •
ACA chair calls for systemic risk focus as LDI evolves

Industry

ACA chair calls for systemic risk focus as LDI evolves

Ahead of new DB funding code, ACA says it is vital to avoid ‘knee-jerk reactions’

clock 01 January 1970 • 2 min read
Eight common signs of a pension scam

Law and Regulation

Eight common signs of a pension scam

PSAG says anyone who receives an unexpected call about their pension should hang up

clock 01 January 1970 • 2 min read
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