Profile: White heat of technology
Kerry Baldwin runs a ‘deep tech’ venture capital fund and chairs the government body looking to facilitate greater DC investment into private markets. She tells Emma Simon why this could deliver benefits...
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Nurturing nature
Over the past few years, defined contribution (DC) pension schemes have made efforts to place sustainability at the heart of their investment strategies, particularly in regards to climate change. As schemes continue...
Damon Hopkins: The holes in the VFM framework
The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) new Value for Money (VFM) consultation for contract-based arrangements aims to achieve long-awaited consistency in measuring the effectiveness of all workplace DC pension schemes. While the overarching...
Housing and pensions round table: Could pensions be key to home ownership?
Should pension schemes allow members to use funds to help get them on the property ladder? And are there more innovative ways the pension funds could be used to address the housing...
Group risk on an electoral roll?
The state of the NHS is figuring prominently in most debates in the run up to polling day on July 4. So why isn’t group risk and healthcare occupying some of the...
Power of engagement roundtable: Baby steps to pensions engagement
Engagement has a crucial role to play when it comes to encouraging members to save more into workplace pensions, a crucial factor in improving retirement outcomes. At a recent roundtable event consultants...
Power of Engagement roundtable: Costing the engagement premium
Few would disagree that better engagement with workplace pensions could significantly improve member outcomes. But there is less agreement among consultants and providers when it comes to how to quantify the value...
Counting the cost of higher claims
Once seen as a perk to help senior management get their hernias and dodgy knees fixed quickly in the private sector, workplace healthcare benefits have undergone a major transformation over the past...
Deciphering decumulation options
All sections of the workplace pension sector are coming under pressure to improve access to retirement solutions to facilitate better decisions.But as always, with two regulators there are differences in the detail...
Master trust and GPP defaults roundtable: Investment strategy – a DC scheme’s right to choose
The government’s drive to benchmark investment performance and target poor performance highlights a number of challenges for the DC pensions sector – how much weight to be given to past performance, and...
