Exclusive: Trustees push schemes for tech support ahead of new online era
Defined benefit (DB) scheme trustees are looking to their schemes to provide them with better technological support, with eight in ten agreeing ad-hoc and online meetings will permanently replace the pre-Covid quarterly meeting cycle.
A Pensions Management Institute survey released today (28 January) and commissioned by River and Mercantile (R&M) found that more than three quarters of trustees felt the coronavirus pandemic "heralds...
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