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A history and the rationale for DB schemes - part three: TPR and its Foucauldian disciplinary powers
A history and the rationale for DB schemes - part three: TPR and its Foucauldian disciplinary powers

In the third feature of a three-part series, Iain Clacher and Con Keating look back at the UK’s defined benefit universe, exploring how the arrival of TPR impacted scheme funding

  • Investment
  • 21 August 2020
A history and the rationale for DB schemes - part two: Maxwell and his impact on scheme funding
A history and the rationale for DB schemes - part two: Maxwell and his impact on scheme funding

In the second feature of a three-part series, Iain Clacher and Con Keating look back at the UK’s defined benefit universe, exploring how the Maxwell scandal impacted scheme funding regulations.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 14 August 2020
A history and the rationale for DB schemes: Where they came from
A history and the rationale for DB schemes: Where they came from

In the first feature of a three-part series, Iain Clacher and Con Keating look back at the UK’s defined benefit universe, exploring why the schemes were set up, how they have changed, and the case for their creation.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 07 August 2020
Ineffective regulation breeds inequitable outcomes
Ineffective regulation breeds inequitable outcomes

Costly DB scheme regulations can result in abuses of equitable relations among stakeholders, say Iain Clacher and Con Keating.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 26 May 2020
The real concerns about the transition to CPIH
The real concerns about the transition to CPIH

The transition from RPI to CPIH could have a significant impact on pension funds. However, as Con Keating says, the real challenges of this shift may come from an unexpected area.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 19 February 2020
Towards a value for money metric
Towards a value for money metric

Costs and fees are just a small part of the overall value for money definition, argues Con Keating

  • Defined Contribution
  • 18 September 2019
Is there a problem with limited liability?
Is there a problem with limited liability?

It may be time to create variations of limited liability, but each alternative has its own problems, Con Keating argues.

  • Investment
  • 23 May 2019
The inequity of DB scheme funding
The inequity of DB scheme funding

Funding standards for DB schemes have increased exponentially over the past decades. Con Keating says such significant overstatement of liabilities will lead to pushback through the courts.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 24 April 2019
Con Keating: A library of scrutiny
Con Keating: A library of scrutiny

The last month has seen a flurry of reports, studies, consultations and discussion papers published. Con Keating takes a look

  • Defined Benefit
  • 28 January 2019
Con Keating: Discount rates and DB pension scheme valuation - A history lesson
Con Keating: Discount rates and DB pension scheme valuation - A history lesson

It is important to look back at how the discount rate methodology came about in the first place, says Brighton Rock Group's head of research

  • Defined Benefit
  • 27 September 2018
Blockchain a 'natural solution' to overcome CDC challenges
Blockchain a 'natural solution' to overcome CDC challenges

Blockchain is a "natural solution" to many of the challenges a collective defined contribution (CDC) structure poses for pension governance and administration.

  • Admin / Technology
  • 26 July 2018
Being 'economical' with the truth with discount rates
Being 'economical' with the truth with discount rates

Iain Clacher and Con Keating say there is much confusion over pension valuations and argue all the methods currently used are wrong. They say a pragmatic resolution could be to use the expected return on assets

  • Defined Benefit
  • 05 June 2018
Royal Mail experience shows CDC is a good news pension story
Royal Mail experience shows CDC is a good news pension story

Con Keating says the Royal Mail pension story is a rare piece of pension good news. And there are a number of major listed firms watching developments in CDC closely.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 26 February 2018
Con Keating: Defined ambition - a trap avoided
Con Keating: Defined ambition - a trap avoided

Con Keating explains why the application of mark-to-market accounting for valuations will result in inequitable outcomes.

  • Investment
  • 19 December 2017
The Belly of the Beast
The Belly of the Beast

Con Keating has been hearing rumblings from within the beast that the FCA and DWP's work on disclosure templates is redundant and a waste of time and money

  • Investment
  • 21 November 2017
Why criticisms of CDC are flawed
Why criticisms of CDC are flawed

Con Keating says the mutuality of CDC schemes is viable, and they can deliver attractive pension benefits over the long term

  • Defined Contribution
  • 31 October 2017
Con Keating: The purpose of a pension scheme
Con Keating: The purpose of a pension scheme

Con Keating explains why he believes we need a debate to determine the precise role of DB pension schemes and their funds.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 26 September 2017
USS deficit talk is 'scaremongering', Altmann says
USS deficit talk is 'scaremongering', Altmann says

Coverage of the growth of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) deficit is 'scaremongering', former pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann has told the House of Lords.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 08 September 2017
An open letter to Frank Field MP
An open letter to Frank Field MP

Con Keating writes an open letter to Frank Field MP, the chairman-elect of the Work and Pensions Committee, about the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). Here it is in full…

  • Law and Regulation
  • 05 September 2017
Should the DB framework be relaxed?
Should the DB framework be relaxed?

The Pensions Institute argues RAA processes should be streamlined and trustees should be able to reduce benefits in a bid to help those struggling with deficits, James Phillips reports.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 26 June 2017
Five stories you may have missed this week
Five stories you may have missed this week

This week's top stories include coverage of a green paper response which said The Pensions Regulator needs to be investigated and the Pension Protection Fund privatised.

  • Industry
  • 26 May 2017
Conservative manifesto gets stamp of approval
Conservative manifesto gets stamp of approval

The industry believes the Conservative proposals for pensions are the best approach, with some stating the commitment to ditch the triple lock is a 'bold but correct' move.

  • Industry
  • 26 May 2017
Investigate 'arrogant and abusive' TPR and privatise PPF, says paper
Investigate 'arrogant and abusive' TPR and privatise PPF, says paper

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) should be investigated by a Royal Commission, according to a response to the government's green paper on defined benefit (DB) schemes.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 22 May 2017
Blame shifting: Pre-packs are not a moral hazard problem
Blame shifting: Pre-packs are not a moral hazard problem

Con Keating says pre-pack administrations do not pose a moral hazard issue, and the problem is actually perverse incentives

  • Risk Reduction
  • 27 April 2017
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