pension administration

Retirement planning, collating information and managing costs are among the best ways for defined contribution (DC) members to optimise their retirement income according to WEALTH at Work.

PP looks at how legislation on data transfers between EU and US is changing.

Paying actuaries more money does not lead to better services for schemes according to PP research.

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is seeking a panel of specialist firms to provide administrative and actuarial services for its scheme assessment process.

Low & Bonar has completed a medically underwritten buy-in of £34m of liabilities within its defined benefit (DB) pension scheme.

Re-enrolment is a different process to auto-enrolment and Paul McGuckin highlights some issues trustees need to be aware of.

The Common Declarations Working Group has devised an agreed set of words to remove the need for paper-based forms to make pension transfers.

Royal Mail Pension Plan is the first scheme to have its in-house administration team gain reaccreditation from the Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA).

The motto of Nationwide Building Society is "on your side". It is an attitude which led to Nationwide Pension Fund (NPF) winning best administration of the year in the Pension Scheme of the Year Awards 2015. The numbers speak for themselves.

The MyCSP chief executive tells Michael Klimes about the challenges of bringing its administration in-house which led to pensioners not being paid on time