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PLSA invites PQM applications and announces committee members
PLSA invites PQM applications and announces committee members

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) is inviting applications for its Pension Quality Mark (PQM), after making changes to the minimum requirements.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 02 July 2019
PLSA shrinks board by four in governance overhaul
PLSA shrinks board by four in governance overhaul

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has announced it will shrink its board by more than one-third as part of a governance overhaul to make it "agile and more appropriate".

  • Appointments
  • 24 September 2018
PLSA urges members to be more active in policy creation
PLSA urges members to be more active in policy creation

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) needs a greater number of more active members to drive its policy development and arguments, Richard Butcher has said.

  • Industry
  • 08 March 2018
Diversity is moving up the agenda of asset owners, finds research
Diversity is moving up the agenda of asset owners, finds research

Nearly three-quarters (74%) of asset owners include diversity in their annual report, according to New Financial.

  • Industry
  • 01 November 2017
PLSA members approve constitution overhaul
PLSA members approve constitution overhaul

Members of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) have given a green light to changes to the trade body's constitution and articles of association.

  • Industry
  • 20 October 2017
PLSA mulls scrapping councils for strategic policy board
PLSA mulls scrapping councils for strategic policy board

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) could ditch its defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) councils and replace them with a single policy board.

  • Industry
  • 18 October 2017
Five stories you may have missed this week
Five stories you may have missed this week

This week's top stories include experts warning that trustees must act now on common and conditional data as the deadline approaches and calls for partial transfers DB transfers to be a right. Here are the top five.

  • Industry
  • 01 September 2017
Lesley Williams to retire from Whitbread
Lesley Williams to retire from Whitbread

Lesley Williams will retire from her role as Whitbread's group pensions director at the start of 2018 after 11 years in the role.

  • Appointments
  • 31 August 2017
Julian Mund named PLSA chief executive
Julian Mund named PLSA chief executive

Julian Mund will take over from Joanne Segars as chief executive of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA).

  • Appointments
  • 25 July 2017
Richard Butcher named as next PLSA chair
Richard Butcher named as next PLSA chair

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has announced that Richard Butcher will succeed Lesley Williams who steps down as chair later this year.

  • Industry
  • 30 May 2017
PLSA announces internal governance review to 'reinvent' itself
PLSA announces internal governance review to 'reinvent' itself

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has launched a year-long review of its internal governance procedures, it announced today.

  • Industry
  • 19 October 2016
Whitbread appoints Aries Insight to keep up with regulatory changes
Whitbread appoints Aries Insight to keep up with regulatory changes

Whitbread Group has chosen Aries Insight's pensions service to help it stay on top of ever changing and complex regulation.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 12 October 2016
Trustees raise doubts over communicating DB risks to members
Trustees raise doubts over communicating DB risks to members

Concerns have been raised about making members more aware of risks to their defined benefit (DB) pensions, for fear of leading to panic and knee-jerk reactions.

  • Communication
  • 07 July 2016
Schemes need more certainty on pension reform
Schemes need more certainty on pension reform

Trying to anticipate future pension reform is causing problems for schemes finds Helen Morrissey.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 19 January 2016
Lesley Williams: All savers hear these days is that 'pensions are bad'
Lesley Williams: All savers hear these days is that 'pensions are bad'

PLSA's new chair tells PP why tax relief uncertainty is damaging our savings culture

  • Law and Regulation
  • 15 January 2016

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