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The top 20 opinion articles of 2016: Discount rates and the bright side of BHS
The top 20 opinion articles of 2016: Discount rates and the bright side of BHS

What were the most read opinion pieces on Professional Pensions over the last 12 months? Here are some of the top pieces from our commentators during the year.

  • Industry
  • 21 December 2016
Con Keating: More 'market-consistent' follies
Con Keating: More 'market-consistent' follies

Con Keating argues that "inflated" market-consistent valuation estimates are distorting cash equivalent transfer values and service costs.

  • Industry
  • 08 December 2016
Strange Ideas
Strange Ideas

Con Keating takes a look at different approaches to evaluating pension liabilities.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 18 November 2016
Smoke and Daggers: The continuing debate over liability valuation methodology
Smoke and Daggers: The continuing debate over liability valuation methodology

In the latest of his articles for Professional Pensions, Con Keating expands on his thoughts on pension liability valuation methodology and explains why his ideas are far from 'crackpot'.

  • Industry
  • 07 November 2016
What is the purpose of a pension fund?
What is the purpose of a pension fund?

In his second article on DB issues Con Keating asks what the purpose is of a pension fund?

  • Defined Benefit
  • 20 October 2016
Why we are wrong about discount rates
Why we are wrong about discount rates

Con Keating questions the need for discount rates and argues, even if we do use them, the current methodologies based on market-consistency and expected returns on investment are wrong.

  • Industry
  • 19 October 2016
How to measure DB deficits
How to measure DB deficits

Anthony Hilton's recent article on DB deficits has got everyone talking about how they should be calculated. However, Helen Morrissey doubts she will see any consensus any time soon.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 27 September 2016
Keating: How can we deal with DB deficits?
Keating: How can we deal with DB deficits?

Evening Standard's columnist Anthony Hilton's critique of how the industry deals with defined benefit deficits sparked much debate with Redington's Dan Mikulskis writing a rebuttal for Professional Pensions. Con Keating gives his view.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 23 September 2016
TTF faces rifts as chair joins 'secretive' IA advisory board
TTF faces rifts as chair joins 'secretive' IA advisory board

The Transparency Task Force (TTF) faces internal rifts after founding chair Andy Agathangelou joined the Investment Association's (IA) independent advisory board on cost transparency.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 15 July 2016
Has the Law Commission's fiduciary duty review been successful?
Has the Law Commission's fiduciary duty review been successful?

Two years have passed since the Law Commission's landmark review that attempted to clear up confusion over trustees' fiduciary duties. Stephanie Baxter finds despite some initial progress there is much more work to be done.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 12 July 2016
Ros Altmann: DB liabilities must not undermine UK economy
Ros Altmann: DB liabilities must not undermine UK economy

The industry has to be more flexible to make defined benefit (DB) schemes more sustainable during this time of economic uncertainty says Ros Altmann.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 08 July 2016
The greatest good: a response
The greatest good: a response

Is the Pensions Institute being “extravagantly alarmist”?

  • Defined Benefit
  • 05 January 2016
Transparency must go beyond costs and fees

Asset managers must open up to allow investors to separate the skilful from the luck

  • Investment
  • 20 August 2015
Don't blame trustees for driving short-term investing

Worries about flighty trustees miss the point

  • Investment
  • 13 July 2015
Lock, Stock and Two Broken Promises?

Chancellor George Osborne's commitment to austerity might force him to break his promise on the triple lock for state pensions. Michael Klimes finds out why

  • Law and Regulation
  • 18 June 2015
Fee transparency: Are trustees living in blissful ignorance?

Con Keating says experience suggests trustees know less than they think

  • Defined Benefit
  • 22 April 2015
Five Stories you might have missed: Towers forced to pay out over delayed transfer; employee exemptions for AE; why costs and fees matter

This week's top stories include a slap on the wrist for Fidelity and Towers Watson over a delayed transfer request and regulations to exempt certain workers from auto-enrolment (AE), while Con Keating discusses how investment costs and fees should be...

  • Industry
  • 10 April 2015
Are fixed asset management fees failing investors?

The widely used AUM fee model only suits asset managers

  • Investment
  • 21 November 2014
BIS is not helping to promote long-term investing

Con Keating says government attempts to promote shareholder engagement are pointless and will increase costs

  • Investment
  • 20 November 2014
Scheme funding: Wading through valuation methods

How do valuation method affect funding levels?

  • Regulation
  • 27 October 2014
'Freedom and choice' will increase inequality and expense

Con Keating says lessons have not been learnt

  • Law and Regulation
  • 03 July 2014
PBUK: The paradox of thrift

Why encouraging people to save more might not be the answer

  • Industry
  • 20 May 2014
Pessimism strikes pensions

Jack Jones looks at the reasons behind falling economic confidence in the industry

  • Investment
  • 20 March 2014
Investor ownership and agency

Brighton Rock head of research Con Keating argues for true engagement

  • Investment
  • 14 January 2014
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