The trustee board of Lafarge's UK pension fund has begun discussions with its sponsor to ensure members would be protected under its proposed $40bn (£23.8bn) merger with Holcim to form a global cement-maker giant.
Greater DC flex forecasted to raise member savings
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April 23, 2014
Increased at-retirement flexibility for defined contribution members introduced by the Budget may lead to higher member contributions, experts have predicted, which could put pressure on some employers' pension structures.
SME uses investment guarantee to ensure good AE outcomes
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April 22, 2014
Engineering company Centek has so far seen its defined ambition-like auto-enrolment investment set-up outperform the underpin it created to guarantee a minimum retirement outcome for its workforce of uninitiated savers.
Lancashire increases employer contributions to mitigate maturing membership
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April 22, 2014
Lancashire Pension Fund has added lump-sum payments to its annual employer contributions to make up for reduced cash flow from a declining active membership.
Accounting body pushes government to scrap outdated reporting regs
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April 22, 2014
Industry body Pensions Research Accountants Group, together with the Financial Reporting Council, has had initial discussions with the government on jettisoning out-of-date requirements for pension scheme reporting to make way for its own enhanced disclosure regime.
NHS scheme moves to improve struggling employer comms
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April 22, 2014
The NHS Pension Scheme will tailor its communication to different employer types to provide them with more support in fulfilling their obligations, after a survey revealed substantial criticism of its approach.
Comment & Analysis
PPF: What our levy work means for your scheme
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April 24, 2014
Guest column: Ahead of a May consultation on the changes to its levy framework, the Pension Protection Fund's David Taylor discusses the organisation's plans for judging sponsor insolvency.
Editorial: Here's the choice you wanted
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April 24, 2014
To annuitise or not to annuitise? The debate rumbles on, with successive reports predicting a fair deal of doom for the vendors of the old normal.
Why there is currently not enough infra debt to go around
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April 24, 2014
JPMorgan Asset Management's Bob Dewing argues there are not currently enough infrastructure debt assets to go around, but that should change, in the latest edition of Informed Comment.
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NAPF: Timescale for Budget's DC reforms 'frighteningly short'
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April 15, 2014
Video: Joanne Segars, chief executive of the National Association of Pension Funds, discusses the implications of last month's Budget on schemes, including its retirement guidance guarantee, in the latest edition of Policymakers and Decision-makers (5:12).
How pot-follows-member could work in practice
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April 1, 2014
Video: Jeffrey Mushens, technical director at Tisa Exchange and James Markham, managing director of SBC Systems, talk about how technology can help schemes implement pensions consolidation, with both favouring a structure that places the burden on the receiving scheme (5:36).
How the Pensions Trust ensures fiduciary management value
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February 27, 2014
Video: Sarah Smart, chair of the trustee board at the Pensions Trust, says its fiduciary management set-up has outperformed its target at lower risk than budgeted for, and explains how the scheme monitors this arrangement (5:56).
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