Defined Benefit
Defined Benefit
The Post Office has moved a step closer to shutting its defined benefit (DB) scheme to future accrual in March 2017.
13 October 2016
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1 min read
Defined Benefit
An agreement has been reached on how to compensate members of the Nortel pension scheme after years of negotiations since the company went bust in 2009.
13 October 2016
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4 min read
Defined Benefit
The estimated value of a defined benefit (DB) transfer grew by a modest £2,000 over September, according to Xafinity.
13 October 2016
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2 min read
Law and Regulation
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) needs more funding and staff rather than a larger suite of powers, the Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) has been told.
12 October 2016
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2 min read
Defined Benefit
Prospect is set to ballot workers at Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) for strike action over the company's plans to close its defined benefit (DB) scheme.
11 October 2016
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3 min read
Defined Benefit
The aggregate funding deficit of defined benefit (DB) schemes in the Pension Protection Fund's (PPF) 7800 Index fell over September as gilt yields rose.
11 October 2016
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2 min read
Defined Benefit
The pre-pack administration arrangement for turkey producer Bernard Matthews seems to have been designed to “dump” its pension scheme, the Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) has been told.
10 October 2016
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3 min read
Defined Benefit
Over 9 in 10 small businesses support a call for the government to introduce a statutory override for scheme indexation, a survey has found.
10 October 2016
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1 min read
Defined Benefit
In a letter to the editor, retired actuary Richard Abramson explains why both Dan Mikulskis and Con Keating could be wrong about how to value DB liabilities…
07 October 2016
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1 min read
Defined Benefit
Shajahan Alam says giving DB schemes flexibility to reduce inflation linkage sounds a lot simpler than it would be in practice.
06 October 2016
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4 min read
