All Consolidation articles – Page 16

  • News

    Now Pensions withdraws from mastertrust assurance list

    2017-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Now Pensions has removed itself from the Pensions Regulator’s list of schemes that have obtained mastertrust assurance for automatic enrolment, citing historic problems processing client contributions.

  • News

    DB white paper will be published in winter

    2017-07-13T00:00:00Z

    The Department for Work and Pensions will consider giving further “proactive” powers to the Pensions Regulator and examine the case for consolidation, in a long-awaited white paper on defined benefit to be published in the winter.

  • Bart Heenk
    Opinion

    How consultants can prepare for scheme consolidation

    2017-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Avida International’s Bart Heenk explains why consultants should embrace scheme consolidation, and how they can prepare for change.

  • Andy Todd
    Opinion

    What are the obstacles to DB consolidation?

    2017-06-26T00:00:00Z

    State Street’s Andy Todd examines why consolidation of defined benefit schemes has not taken off in the private sector, and argues that cost should not be the only motivation for asset pooling.

  • Opinion

    Lord Stoneham: Flat rate tax relief will help 'people in the middle'

    2017-05-19T00:00:00Z

    For the latest instalment of our 2017 general election interview series, Lord Stoneham, the Liberal Democrat chief whip in the House of Lords, explains his party's commitment to reviewing pensions taxation, and the need for consolidation of schemes and of pots.

  • Joe Dabrowski
    Opinion

    PLSA: Regulator should provide protections on index switching

    2017-05-11T00:00:00Z

    The Pension and Lifetime Savings Association’s defined benefit policy team recently took to the road to hear what members thought of the proposals outlined in the government’s green paper on ‘Security and sustainability in defined benefit schemes’ and our recent report on superfunds.