First Actuarial has been appointed to provide actuarial and administration services for The London Clinic Retirement Fund. The fund is a defined benefit scheme with around £65m in assets. The sponsoring employer...
The UK’s 10 largest professional trustee firms now manage 43 per cent of all defined benefit (DB) pension schemes, up from 39 per cent last year, according to Isio. According to Isio’s...
UK pension growth efforts could fail unless policymakers engage directly with trustees of Defined Benefit (DB) schemes, according to research from LCP. The report shows that while more than £1.2 trillion sits...
Members of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes are concerned government plans to allow employers to extract surpluses could put their retirement at risk, according to new research. The polling of 1,000 DB members, by Pension Insurance...
Two years into his role as CEO of Independent Governance Group (IGG), indie rock-loving Mancunian Andrew Bradshaw has a vision of a new form of professional trustee firm. For Bradshaw it is...
The surpluses accumulated in DB schemes are key to unlocking investment in the UK economy and kick-starting the government's growth agenda, according to a new report from the Social Market Foundation. The...
First Actuarial is calling for a fairer approach from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) as pension redress remains at a historic low, urging a reassessment of pension transfer complaints in light of...
XPS Group has launched a new guide to help DB trustees and sponsors respond to the new funding and investment strategy regulations. All DB schemes now have to comply with these new...
DB transfer activity has fallen for the third consecutive month, hitting its lowest rate since the index was established in 2018, according to XPS Group’s Transfer Activity Index. There was an annualised...
Roll back a few years and defined benefit (DB) pension schemes were focused on bridging a deficit on technical provisions or moving towards self sufficiency. Surplus probably didn’t enter into the thinking...
