Professional Pensions and Mercer Deskflix Event: Covid-19
Dealing with the impacts. The event examines how the pandemic has amplified some of the challenges DB and DC pension schemes have to overcome, and how you’ll now need to rise to a new set of challenges that, whilst created by Covid-19, are probably here to stay.
Two years after their launch, the standards now reflect post-Covid retirement attitudes
Most employers continue to see a strong case for providing competitive workplace pensions
Pension body urges government to consider four key policy areas in 2021 Budget
Younger savers are more likely to have altered their retirement plans
The 2018 to 2020 period saw the first drop in life expectancy since the series began
Research found the number of DB trustees considering a PIE rose by 40% this year
Roshan Tajapra argues that pandemic years should be taken into account for base mortality assumptions
The latest CMI mortality monitor update covers data from week 34 of 2021
‘Valuable’ data exists but this will need to be captured as the pandemic eases off
The firm’s income for the 2020/21 financial year was £142.1m while profits also increased