All Defined benefit articles – Page 215
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Features
Saul avoids member backlash in switch to Care
The £1.5bn multi-employer scheme for academics has avoided the problems experienced by Unilever in switching to a career-average framework, by being flexible in negotiations with stakeholders
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British Steel launches nursery DC to manage cost
The £11.4bn scheme will close its defined benefit section to new entrants and introduce a money purchase scheme to manage the costs of auto-enrolment.
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USS reform shares cost and risk with members
The £32.4bn multi-employer pension scheme has benefited from a series of risk and cost-sharing arrangements with its members
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Healthcare scheme curbs losses with dynamic derisking
Pippa Stephens discovers how the General Healthcare Group (GHG) scheme prevented a five percentage-point drop in its funding position thanks to implementing an investment sub-committee and a triggered derisking strategy.
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Greater Manchester prepares for 25% fall in membership
Greater Manchester Pension Fund has set up a working group to draw up an investment strategy in expectation of a much-reduced membership.
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Star Group invests third of assets in diversified beta to reduce risk
The £213m scheme has placed a third of its total assets in a single fund to reduce volatility while running a relatively high risk of overconcentration in one manager
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IAS 19 changes to drive derisking
Changes to accounting standards will bring sponsors and schemes closer together, and provide an impetus to derisk, according to consultants.
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Regulator: How schemes can better protect members
The Pensions Regulator discusses how it is working with schemes to protect members’ benefits and preparing the industry for auto-enrolment.
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Modelling inflation is key to tackling volatility
Schemes need to understand exactly how their funding positions are impacted by various inflation scenarios, argues PensionsFirst’s Matthew Furniss.
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Admin warning on DB-DC transfers
Defined benefit (DB) schemes considering offering member transfers to defined contribution (DC) arrangements have been warned of administrative costs and falling foul of the regulator.
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Are ETVs always inappropriate? Ask a BA pilot
The pensions minister is wrong in condemning schemes for offering cash incentives for defined benefit (DB) members to switch to defined contribution (DC) plans.
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NewsLGPS reforms to swell private sector deficits
Private sector employers will be among the biggest losers of the 2014 local government pension scheme (LGPS) reforms.
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SME schemes get low-cost derivative access
Around 340 mainly small and medium-sized schemes have adopted a system of asset-liability modelling, previously only affordable to much larger plans.