Trustee

The Financial Reporting Council has published a list of questions to help trustees understand and challenge the advice they receive from actuaries.

Trustees are only "laying off risk" by using investment consultants and "can do more on their own", delegates heard

What to ask at the next trustee meeting

Longevity risk fears are spiking for defined benefit pension schemes, as surging life expectancy puts pressure on scheme funding strategies, a survey shows.

Survitec Group Pension Scheme has appointed Mercer to provide dynamic de-risking services in a bid to get the scheme to an investment "end-game".

It is a legal requirement for trustees to have the right level of technical knowledge to do their job efficiently. Andrew Short discusses how trustees can meet and surpass this requirement.

Some 73% of occupational pension trustees plan to reduce their allocation to equities over the next year, a Pension Corporation survey reveals.

A third BA pension scheme trustee has quit the scheme in the row over future indexation saying the scheme had become a ‘political football'.

Trustees have been urged to take control of decision making rather than giving way to their advisers.

Trustee life coach Brian Holden updates his views on fund gover­nance following the publication of his independent report in November 2008