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Engaging with pension risk
Engaging with pension risk

In Newton Investment Management's latest DC column, Curt Custard looks at how to increase multigenerational engagement with pensions

  • Defined Contribution
  • 29 May 2019
John Lewis to close 44,000-member DB scheme in bid to save £80m a year
John Lewis to close 44,000-member DB scheme in bid to save £80m a year

The John Lewis Partnership has announced plans to close the defined benefit (DB) section of its combined pension scheme.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 16 May 2019
Why ESG has a branding problem
Why ESG has a branding problem

For too long, ESG has been talked about as if it were something outside our main investment process. Jonathan Stapleton says this must change.

  • Investment
  • 10 May 2019
Inflation: The rise and fall
Inflation: The rise and fall

Catherine Doyle continues Newton Investment Management's series of DC columns with a look at inflationary and deflationary risk

  • Defined Contribution
  • 01 May 2019
The lifetime allowance should be scrapped, says industry
The lifetime allowance should be scrapped, says industry

The lifetime allowance should be scrapped and replaced with a lower annual allowance, last week's Pensions Buzz respondents said.

  • Industry
  • 25 April 2019
TPR reveals plans to reduce 'poorly-run' schemes
TPR reveals plans to reduce 'poorly-run' schemes

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is focusing on reducing the number of "poorly-run" schemes as it seeks to improve standards across the board.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 24 April 2019
River and Mercantile selects Mobius Life for DC investment platform
River and Mercantile selects Mobius Life for DC investment platform

Mobius Life has been appointed by River and Mercantile (R&M) as an investment-only platform and administrator for its defined contribution (DC) fiduciary management pension scheme clients.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 11 April 2019
UTV to close pension scheme; Unions demand compensation for members
UTV to close pension scheme; Unions demand compensation for members

UTV - the Ulster-based subsidiary of ITV - is planning to close its pension scheme to future accrual in a move it says is necessary to be fair to all employees.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 27 March 2019
Mastering the future
Mastering the future

In the latest in a series of DC columns from Newton Investment Management, Jin Philips considers what we can expect in the next stage of master trusts' development

  • Defined Contribution
  • 26 March 2019
Our politicians should help us simplify the system
Our politicians should help us simplify the system

Alan Pickering says politicians should have the freedom to redefine what is meant by 'absolute'

  • Law and Regulation
  • 18 February 2019
'Harsher' allowances hit a million 'pension dippers', finds Just Group
'Harsher' allowances hit a million 'pension dippers', finds Just Group

More than one million people aged over 55 are now subject to harsher pension contribution limits as a result of using the pension freedom rules, Just Group research has found.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 04 February 2019
Cost transparency: Where are we a year on?
Cost transparency: Where are we a year on?

The transaction cost disclosure regulations have been in place for a year. Jon Parker says while there has been progress in obtaining data, there is a still a long way to go.

  • Regulation
  • 18 January 2019
An opportunity for a simpler DB world
An opportunity for a simpler DB world

Jenny Condron says pensions simplification would sweep away confusion for members arising from having up to 12 tranches with different rates of revaluation and increase.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 11 January 2019
A third of DC members 'expect living standards to decline in retirement'
A third of DC members 'expect living standards to decline in retirement'

People in their mid-career aged 35-49 are the most likely to struggle with saving for retirement, according to Aon's 2018 defined contribution (DC) and financial wellbeing member survey.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 14 December 2018
Dashboards should be on trust board agendas sooner rather than later
Dashboards should be on trust board agendas sooner rather than later

Steve Webb says pension schemes would be ill-advised to sit back and defer consideration of the implications of a dashboard for them.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 06 December 2018
Don't suspend pension transfer activity in the wake of GMP ruling, says industry
Don't suspend pension transfer activity in the wake of GMP ruling, says industry

Trustees should not suspend DB to DC pension transfer activity following the recent GMP equalisation ruling, say this week's Pensions Buzz respondents.

  • Industry
  • 30 November 2018
Exclusive: Interest in pension performance transparency jumps by nearly 20 points
Exclusive: Interest in pension performance transparency jumps by nearly 20 points

Just under three quarters of defined contribution (DC) members are interested in seeing how their pension scheme's performance compares to others in the market, according to AllianceBernstein.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 12 November 2018
Manchester University staff vote to strike over pensions reform
Manchester University staff vote to strike over pensions reform

Support staff at Manchester University have overwhelmingly voted to take strike action over plans to reduce and close the defined benefit (DB) pension scheme.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 02 November 2018
Four in five members trust their employers to make good investment decisions
Four in five members trust their employers to make good investment decisions

Companies should revaluate their approach to defined contribution (DC) default design as more than 80% of savers trust employers to choose the right investments, according to research by BlackRock.

  • Investment
  • 03 October 2018
NEST seeks out private credit manager for first time
NEST seeks out private credit manager for first time

NEST is challenging the asset management sector to come up with an affordable and innovative private credit solution for itself and the wider defined contribution (DC) sector.

  • Investment
  • 05 September 2018
Manchester University plans to close final salary scheme for support staff
Manchester University plans to close final salary scheme for support staff

The University of Manchester is consulting on closing its non-academic staff final salary fund to future accrual and enrolling new recruits into a defined contribution (DC) scheme.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 08 August 2018
TPR and FCA must work closer on scams and transfers
TPR and FCA must work closer on scams and transfers

The industry has been reacting to TPR and the FCA's joint call for input on how they will tackle pensions issues. Victoria Ticha looks at some of the responses

  • Law and Regulation
  • 29 June 2018
What trustees must heed in the evolving DC landscape
What trustees must heed in the evolving DC landscape

Master trust consolidation may not happen quickly, and trustee standard compliance is crucial to protect member benefits. Kim Kaveh reports from PP's DC Conference.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 29 April 2018
BT and CWU agree to new 'hybrid' pension scheme
BT and CWU agree to new 'hybrid' pension scheme

The closure of the BT Pension Scheme (BTPS) to future accrual means 20,000 active members will move to an 'enhanced' defined contribution (DC) scheme, after the company reached a deal with the union.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 20 March 2018
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