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Why two pairs of eyes are better than one (for DB sponsors)

Stuart Bradbury

Sponsors want help to manage schemes approaching endgame scenarios

Investors must insist on decarbonisation – before it’s too late

Lydia Darby

Investors have a role – and the power – to encourage sustainable business models. ShareAction's Lydia Darby talks about why they went to BASF's AGM last month

Time to review how the UK saves for the future

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Hymans' Hannah English argues that now is the right time to review retirement income saving

Can regulation revive DB schemes?

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The Work and Pensions Committee’s call for evidence on defined benefit (DB) pension schemes has now closed, and with a new funding code on the horizon, now is a good time to reflect on what makes a successful DB scheme.

Small schemes face big decisions amid growing cost pressures

Andy Thomson

Broadstone actuarial director Andy Thomson looks at the challenges facing trustees of small defined benefit schemes amid shifting regulation and a turbulent macroeconomic environment.

Key themes in the regulator’s new EDI guidance

Daniella Farsiani

Eversheds Sutherland associate Daniella Farsiani casts her eye over the main points that concern scheme sponsors and employers in the Pensions Regulator's new guidance on equality, diversity and inclusion in pension schemes.

DB pensions: Only 5 years left?

Rob Hammond

BWD client director Rob Hammond looks at how realistic it would be for all of the UK’s 5,000 or so defined benefit schemes to be bought out in the next five years.

FAS members still waiting for pensions justice

Terry Monk

Pensions Action Group member Terry Monk argues that the cost of living crisis for Financial Assistance Scheme members has been a generation in the making.

‘Why aren’t we on TikTok?’

Charlotte Cartwright and Alex Lane

As communications methods used by pension members become more diverse, we need to consider all platforms, say Eversheds Sutherland partner Charlotte Cartwright and senior associate Alex Lane.

The great pensions dashboard reset

Girish Menezes

Isio head of administration Girish Menezes runs the rule over the pensions dashboards project and says the industry should be using the latest delay to actively improve the project.