Opinion

Sorca Kelly-Scholte looks at the legacy of zero and negative interest rate policies.

Hilary Salt looks at the challenges of operating in a low interest rate environment.

In his second article on DB issues Con Keating asks what the purpose is of a pension fund?

Con Keating questions the need for discount rates and argues, even if we do use them, the current methodologies based on market-consistency and expected returns on investment are wrong.

Jonathan Stapleton asks how we should be valuing defined benefit scheme liabilities and whether the current methodology is fit for purpose

David Harris looks at what Ireland can learn from the UK on pension reform.

Catherine Howarth explains why we need to allow savers to have choice when it comes to picking their workplace pension provider

Jonathan Lipkin says the Investment Association is getting closer to delivering a complete framework for disclosing costs.

Shajahan Alam says giving DB schemes flexibility to reduce inflation linkage sounds a lot simpler than it would be in practice.

Kevin Wesbroom looks at the issues the industry faces around liabilities