The Department of Work and Pension has approved plans for the Royal Mail to launch the UK’s first collective defined contribution (CDC) pension scheme. This confirmation was given in the DWP’s published...
It was always widely predicted that the workplace pension reforms and accompanying changes to remuneration for advisers would bring a dramatic slowdown in the switching of schemes between providers. The question now...
Chair of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, governor of the Pensions Policy Institute and MD of PTL, one of the most widely used professional independent trustees, Richard Butcher can accurately be described...
This statement provides more detailed guidance on how schemes should approaching forthcoming valuations. It is particularly relevant to schemes conducting valuations from 22 September 2018 to 21 September 2019. TPR says trustees...
The Investment Association will identify companies who pay higher pension contributions to directors when compared to the rest of their workforce. The IA says that this is a clear corporate governance issue...
Pension consultants LCP have appointed Dan Mikulskis as a new partner in the company’s investment team. In this new role Mikulskis will be lead on the development of projects for both DB...
LGPS Central has appointed Mike Weston as its new chief executive. Weston will start in this new role on March 7, subject to FCA approval. LGPS Central has also announced that John Burns...
The Government has confirmed it will legislate to introduce collective defined contribution (CDC) pension schemes. Minister for pensions and financial inclusion Guy Opperman says he will set out detailed proposals within the...
Pension experts have given a cautious welcome to new government plans to make it a criminal offence to “recklessly” underfund a workplace pension. The work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd says that...
The Government is pausing a planned review of the cost of public sector pension schemes because of a court judgment that could add £4bn a year to its liabilities. Unions are in...
