Barnett Waddingham

Andrew Short explores the effects for schemes

Government should do more to open up the middle ground between defined benefit and defined contribution schemes to let "imaginative" hybrid schemes flourish, delegates heard.

UK - Barnett Waddingham has been chosen by investment bank UBS to provide administration and actuarial oversight services for its longevity swaps service.

Barnett Waddingham has been chosen by investment bank UBS to provide administration and actuarial oversight services for its longevity swaps service.

The government are yet to develop a grand vision for pensions and should be prepared to resort to compulsion if auto-enrolment fails, delegates heard.

Industry figures have stepped up calls for the government to go beyond the auto-enrolment of workers and ease ISA taxation laws to solve the nation's savings shortfall.

SL Investment Management has appointed Louise Witts as a senior actuary within its product and proposition development team.

Firms planning to freeze their defined benefit schemes should do so before 5 April next year due to a forthcoming change in guaranteed minimum pension rules, a consultant says.

Andrew Short asks if absolute return funds are failing to fulfil their remit and whether they still have a role to play in today's fund portfolios

Pensioners in capped drawdown face significant drops in retirement income because of falling gilt yields affecting the amount that can be drawn from a fund, Rowanmoor Pensions claims.