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For most of the past thirty years it is fair to say that if you were lucky enough to have a defined benefit (DB) pension then you didn’t need to worry about inflation too much. With the cost of living soaring this looks set to change....
Introduction On 23 October 2018, the DWP published two sets of regulations designed to implement the second European Pensions Directive (“IORP II”) – the Occupational Pension Schemes (Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (“the...
TPR has confirmed that from 2018, scheme returns in respect of DB and hybrid (mixed benefit) occupational pension schemes will require information in relation to the quality of the scheme’s data. We expect the same questions to be asked...
Winmark and Sackers have published ‘Effective Governance – the Art of Balance’, a new report on effective governance for pension schemes. The report is based on a survey of 84 pension schemes and 13 in-depth interviews with chairs of...
The Finance & Investment Briefing – June 2017 (PDF) takes a look at current issues of interest to pension scheme investors. In this briefing: Overview and governance The importance of managing risk in DB investments ESG...
TPR is keen to raise standards of governance. There is currently no appetite to introduce minimum qualifications for trustees, or a formal CPD framework. Instead, TPR intends to get “back to basics” by: improving its online guidance...
Introduction As part of its work to examine how trustee boards can meet the challenge of scheme governance in the 21st century, on 22 July 2016, TPR published a discussion paper setting out what it is doing to educate and support trustees...
