CPI

UK - Insurers will be forced to increase buyout prices in the medium term unless CPI-linked instruments are issued in the coming months, Punter Southall says.

Pension increases will fall by almost one-third next year as a result of the switch from RPI to CPI indexation, Towers Watson analysis reveals.

Legislation allowing trustees to override RPI written in the trust deed and switch to CPI would not be in members' best interests, delegates heard.

Investment bank J.P. Morgan has started quoting prices for Consumer Prices Index swaps after the government announced it would change the indexation basis for pension increases from RPI to CPI this summer.

Chris Wagstaff, of Aviva Investors looks at what inflation means for defined benefit schemes, the implications of implementing a new inflation indexing basis and whether inflation remains a threat

Schemes should look at the bigger picture on risk before opting for insurance contracts that enable switching from RPI to CPI, a consultant says.

This high-level industry debate - sponsored by Scottish Widows - discusses the future of pensions and looks at what can be done to encourage occupational provision and make existing schemes easier to administer as well as how to engage members and employees...

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to a letter included in the 2 September edition of PP.....

Pension Insurance Corporation has begun offering scheme sponsors flexible insurance contracts that enable it to switch benefit payments from RPI to CPI.

This month, panellists Stephen Jones and Jeroen van Bezooijen discuss the effects of the move to the Consumer Prices Index