Industry Voice: Member options exercises can usually be tailored to make sure that they meet a pension scheme's long-term objectives.
Industry Voice: Over the past three years, sponsors and trustees have been navigating their way through the pension freedoms and trying to predict what impact they will have on their pension schemes.
Alongside the Freedom and Choice provisions was a requirement that members who have a transfer value over £30,000 must take independent financial advice from a suitably qualified individual before they are able to transfer their benefits out of a defined...
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Industry Voice: Kelly Hurren, Senior Consultant at Aon, discusses how DB schemes are responding to 'Freedom and Choice'.
Research highlights confusion about where responsibility to support members on transfers lies. Kim Kaveh looks at the key findings
Some 90% of schemes have seen an increase in the number of requests from members for transfer values over the last 18 months, according to an Aon study.
The National Grid Electricity Group has completed an intermediated longevity swap with Zurich for the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme (ESPS).
Defined contribution (DC) schemes that have opted for passive management should consider whether a multi-factor portfolio better suits their needs, Aon says.
Master trust consolidation may not happen quickly, and trustee standard compliance is crucial to protect member benefits. Kim Kaveh reports from PP's DC Conference.