Defined Benefit

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.

WHEB will be the first asset manager to adopt the Red Line voting principles developed by the Association of Member Nominated Trustees (AMNT) to give trustees more power.

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.

A shareholder resolution at Pearson has been filed by a coalition of schemes including Unison's staff pension fund to urge the company to review its business strategy.

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

Almost a fifth of schemes have not reviewed their default investment strategy in light of freedom and choice according to Lifesight, the master trust owned by Willis Towers Watson.

PP finds potential political interference in the LGPS on divestment decisions is causing concern.

The biggest stories on PP this week were warnings that decent retirement could mean working until age 85, and the risks to members from pooling the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).

BAE Systems, Airbus and the trustees are creating a separate Airbus section of the BAE Systems Pension Scheme in order to give a better estimate of the deficit allocation.

Insurers should consider eyeing up smaller de-risking transactions rather than focusing on the mega deals that can end up falling away, according to Aon Hewitt.