Opinion

The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the end of last month has prompted a huge wave of protest and soul-searching across the world.

Alan Whalley says professional trustee claims of “provisional” accreditations are undermining the process and creating confusion in the market.

Collective pressure has delivered results on cutting carbon emissions, so pension scheme investors should take advantage of AGM season, says Diandra Soobiah

The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the need for the industry to embrace technology in order to improve administration processes and data, says Girish Menezes.

Chris DeMarco explains why the Covid-19 has increased opportunities for schemes to de-risk via bulk annuities.

Sectoral diversification has shown its worth in this economic crisis, says Robert Scammell, but whether this is a ‘dead cat bounce’ is yet to be determined.

Costly DB scheme regulations can result in abuses of equitable relations among stakeholders, say Iain Clacher and Con Keating.

Gregg McClymont says AE schemes make it easy to opt-out should members feel contributions are not in their best interest

As new figures from the Pension Protection Fund show the shortfall of final salary schemes in deficit grew to £256.4bn during April, Joe Dabrowski examines how the superfund structure could help…if only we had one.

David Fairs set outs why the regulator believes the economic fallout from Covid-19 is not a reason to abandon revisions to the DB funding regime.