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Kristian Brunt-Seymour

Kristian Brunt-Seymour

Kristian is Senior Correspondent at Professional Pensions covering pensions-related news, commentary and analysis for finance, HR and benefits professionals.

This includes risk reduction, risk management, defined benefit, defined contribution, auto-enrolment, law, legislation and regulation.

Kristian over four years experience as an NCTJ-accredited journalst. He is also a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).

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Articles by Kristian Brunt-Seymour

Risk Management

Interest rate hedging activity swells by 13% in Q4

Interest rate and inflation hedging levels rose during the last quarter of 2015 according to BMO Global Asset Management's Liability Driven Investment (LDI) survey.

clock 01 March 2016 • 1 min read

Law and Regulation

Have your say: The Brexit bombshell on UK pensions

This week we want to know what effect a vote for the UK to leave the EU would have on pensions and what areas would see the most work as a result.

clock 29 February 2016 • 1 min read

Defined Benefit

Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund closes DB to future accrual

Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund (MNOPF) will close its defined benefit (DB) scheme to future accrual and instead introduce a 30% defined contribution (DC) rate for members.

clock 29 February 2016 • 2 min read

Defined Benefit

How would Brexit impact pensions?

As the EU referendum looms closer it is entirely possible the UK could end up leaving Europe. Kristian Brunt-Seymour finds a Brexit could be both good and bad for pensions.

clock 26 February 2016 • 4 min read

Defined Benefit

Scottish Widows boosts sales after entering bulk annuity market

Scottish Widows' life and pension sales have risen by 10% since 2014 on the back of £2.8bn from its first two bulk annuity deals.

clock 25 February 2016 • 1 min read

Defined Contribution

A day in the life of Pension wise

As Pension wise marks its first year of operation, Kristian Brunt-Seymour speaks to staff at the service's Banbury branch about their experience so far and how they think the service will evolve.

clock 23 February 2016 • 7 min read

Defined Benefit

Aon calls the odds on pension tax relief reform

A flat-rate of tax relief is the most likely reform to appear in the Chancellor's March Budget according to Aon Hewitt‘s predictions.

clock 23 February 2016 • 3 min read

Appointments

Amey OS appoints SEI as fiduciary manager

Amey OS has chosen SEI to provide fiduciary management services to its £135m defined benefit (DB) pension scheme.

clock 22 February 2016 • 1 min read

Risk Management

How data cleansing can get schemes better bulk annuity deals

Data cleansing is an increasingly important step in the path to bulk annuities especially with growth in medical underwriting. Kristian Brunt Seymour explores how it can benefit schemes.

clock 22 February 2016 • 7 min read

Regulation

FCA consults on how financial firms can better support ageing population

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a discussion paper to learn how financial services firm can better engage with an increasingly ageing population.

clock 22 February 2016 • 2 min read
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