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      This webinar will bring together views from actuaries, lawyers, administrators, trustees and data experts to look at the pragmatic, collaborative solutions that are open to schemes to solve the GMP equalisation challenges in 2021. It will assess the individual challenges schemes face with equalisations and provide some practical options that are available to resolve these issues.

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      So far, DC plans have largely been focused on the onset of auto-enrolment and changes to the regulatory framework - be it the ‘charge cap,' ‘pension freedoms' or consultations around ‘value for money', says Annabel Tonry, Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM).

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      In 2015 George Osborne, then the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, decided that those age over 55 could take much more of their pension in cash. This has since opened up a range of possibilities for DC scheme members in the world of pensions.

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Assessing longevity in a post-Covid-19 world
Assessing longevity in a post-Covid-19 world

Amy Kessler, Professor Andrew Cairns, Professor David Blake and Marsha Kessler look at how schemes can make longevity assumptions post-Covid

  • Risk Reduction
  • 17 July 2020
Covid-19 impact on survivor mortality rates to be 'modest', study finds
Covid-19 impact on survivor mortality rates to be 'modest', study finds

Pension schemes and life insurers should be prepared for a modest change to their assumptions for mortality rates in the post-Covid-19 world, an academic study suggests.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 20 May 2020
Womens' pension prospects dulled by 'reckless conservatism'
Womens' pension prospects dulled by 'reckless conservatism'

Researchers from Cass Business School and the University of Bristol have found that the tendency of women to be more risk-adverse than men is a major contributor to pension inequality in the UK.

  • Industry
  • 29 October 2019
Mid-life MOTs run danger of 'shocking people into doing nothing at all'
Mid-life MOTs run danger of 'shocking people into doing nothing at all'

Employees will be like “rabbits in the headlights” if they are awakened to their low levels of saving too late in their working lives, it has been warned.

  • Industry
  • 16 September 2019
The problems with forecasting longevity
The problems with forecasting longevity

Trends in longevity and mortality have proven difficult to forecast historically, but are vital to funding schemes and ensuring adequate retirement pots. James Phillips explores the key influences

  • Defined Benefit
  • 23 October 2018
Longevity 14: CDC urged as solution to demographic challenges and 'insolvent' state system
Longevity 14: CDC urged as solution to demographic challenges and 'insolvent' state system

The advent of collective pension systems could help the UK avoid demographic challenges which will make it "impossible" for society to help savers in retirement, experts say.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 24 September 2018
Black Box thinking in the pensions industry
Black Box thinking in the pensions industry

Breaking the closed-loop thinking in pensions is possible if we can change our collective mind-set, according to David Blake and Matthew Syed

  • Industry
  • 12 March 2018
Could 'black box' thinking solve DB problems?
Could 'black box' thinking solve DB problems?

The Pensions Institute says the aviation sector's constant evaluation of mistakes to improve safety should be applied to pensions. Stephanie Baxter considers the report's findings

  • Defined Benefit
  • 27 February 2018
'Black box thinking' would solve DB problems, says Pensions Institute
'Black box thinking' would solve DB problems, says Pensions Institute

The aviation sector's constant evaluation of mistakes to improve safety should be applied to defined benefit schemes, as too many are making the same mistakes again and again, latest research shows.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 21 February 2018
Collective individual DC schemes best route for savers, finds report
Collective individual DC schemes best route for savers, finds report

Collective individual defined contribution (CIDC) schemes should be sought as the next form of pension provision, a university paper has recommended.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 14 February 2018
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
TPR should get powers to allow 'second-best' outcomes for members
TPR should get powers to allow 'second-best' outcomes for members

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) should be allowed to alter scheme indexation and benefits to ensure members get at least "second-best" outcomes.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 21 June 2017
Pension policy is 'ad-hoc' and needs simplifying, report says
Pension policy is 'ad-hoc' and needs simplifying, report says

Pension legislation and regulation need a radical overhaul in order to reduce complexity and communicate a coherent message, according to a report.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 07 February 2017
TPR 'close to interfering in markets' and needs role 'diminished'
TPR 'close to interfering in markets' and needs role 'diminished'

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has been heavily criticised in a damning indictment of the state of UK pension regulation.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 07 February 2017
How trustees can find good active fund managers
How trustees can find good active fund managers

In these challenging economic times it is essential to have skilled active fund managers but they are tricky to identify. Michael Klimes looks at how to find them.

  • Investment
  • 03 October 2016
IRRI report: Savers do not understand retirement risks
IRRI report: Savers do not understand retirement risks

Pension savers need much more support if the freedom and choice reforms are to be a success says a major report.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 02 March 2016
Pensions Institute predicts medical underwriting boom in bulk annuity market
Pensions Institute predicts medical underwriting boom in bulk annuity market

The Pensions Institute has predicted there will be rapid growth in medically underwritten bulk annuities as schemes turn to ‘top-sliced' deals and traditional insurers get into the market.

  • Bulk Annuities
  • 13 January 2016
The greatest good: a response
The greatest good: a response

Is the Pensions Institute being “extravagantly alarmist”?

  • Defined Benefit
  • 05 January 2016
Charge cap 'nonsense' as hidden costs hike up fees

The 0.75% charge cap has been branded ‘nonsense' after government research found most providers could not calculate charges not covered by the limit that members were paying.

  • Industry
  • 21 December 2015
Longevity rise slowdown: What do the latest figures mean for schemes?

Will funds benefit from increased mortality rates?

  • Risk Reduction
  • 02 October 2015
Longevity risk: 'it's the demographics stupid'

The development of a capital market for longevity risk would ease the debt burden on future generations, Natasha Browne hears

  • Risk Reduction
  • 18 June 2015
Blake warns of dangerous concentration of longevity risk among insurers

The insurance industry faces a "severe" concentration of systematic longevity risk through the market for buy-ins, buyouts and longevity swaps, according to professor David Blake.

  • Risk Reduction
  • 17 June 2015
Asset management costs: gradually becoming more transparent

PP looks at the latest proposals to actually tell schemes what they pay asset managers

  • Defined Benefit
  • 13 February 2015
Labour steps up review of DC retirement incomes

The Pensions Institute has published a consultation on retirement incomes from defined contribution (DC) schemes as part of a review launched by Labour.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 24 November 2014
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