Barnett Waddingham

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.

Trustees of the £20m IM Group, the UK-based motor vehicle importer and distributor, pension scheme have appointed Barnett Waddingham to provide actuarial services to the defined benefit scheme.

UK - The Government should cap defined contribution scheme charges to match the existing limits on stakeholder pensions to avoid complaints about ‘mis-selling', the Workplace Retirement Income Commission says.

Government should cap defined contribution scheme charges to match the existing limits on stakeholder pensions to avoid complaints about ‘mis-selling', the Workplace Retirement Income Commission says.