Emma Watkins

Funding deficits and employer covenant have leapt to the top of the list of trustee's concerns this year, research shows.

Funding deficits have become the biggest risk factor worrying trustees and sponsors of defined benefit schemes over the past year, according to a study.

Member benefits will be compromised if the Consumer Prices Index is used instead of Retail Prices Index to measure price inflation, MetLife Assurance says.

Development of defined benefit schemes could be hindered by a growing disconnect between trustees' and sponsoring employers' attitudes to risk, MetLife Assurance says.

The third Professional Pensions Conjecture debate-chaired by Professional Pensions editor Len Roberts and including Pitmans Trustees director Andrew Gaspar, Ashurst partner Steven Hull and ACE European Group pensions specialist Emma Watkins -looked at...