Robin Ellison: Coping with longevity and diversity

PP’s regular columnist discusses obesity legislation and DEI in practice

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In the latest of his series of monthly columns for Professional Pensions, Robin Ellison explains why obesity legislation might need to be on schemes’ risk registers and gives us his views on how schemes should tackle diversity on trustee boards.

Decreasing longevity may be a concern for us and for the government, but it can be a blessing for pension funds, especially defined benefit (DB) plans. And one of the causes of the decrease seems t...

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