All Defined benefit articles – Page 24
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NewsDisappointment over DB funding code delay
When the Pensions Regulator released its 2023-24 corporate plan last week, it revealed that it had put its long-awaited and much-vaunted defined benefit funding code on the back burner.
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NewsTPR authorises first CDC pension scheme
The Pensions Regulator has authorised the UK’s first collective defined contribution pension scheme.
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NewsReal estate asset managers set to miss carbon reduction targets
New research shows that almost all commercial real estate assets managed by asset management companies will fail to reach their carbon emissions reduction targets.
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NewsHMRC U-turns on lifetime allowance death payments change
HM Revenue & Customs has listened to feedback from pension providers and will abandon making changes on dealing with death benefits in respect of the lifetime allowance being scrapped.
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NewsLDI: all in it together, but some responsibilities are regulators’ alone
The Pensions Regulator published new guidance on April 24 that outlined how leveraged liability-driven investment should be used within defined benefit schemes’ investment strategies.
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NewsThree-quarters of UK adults are ignorant of their pension savings
Three in every four people (75 per cent) are ignorant of how much they have saved in their pensions, according to new research by Standard Life.
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NewsAltmann: ‘Older pensioners must not be abandoned’
The government was right to raise state pensions in line with inflation this year after it “abandoned” pensioners in 2022, former pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann has said.
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NewsReport: UK workers face more than £115,000 retirement income deficit
That people are not saving enough for their retirement is a well established fact. But a new report has put a figure of £115,000 as the deficit those who rely solely on pension contributions will face once they retire.
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NewsNext generation will live beyond their means in retirement
A generation of retirees is unsure about their financial position and needs support to understand it, according to a new study by The Wisdom Council, published on April 4.
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FeaturesThe resurgence of pension scheme surpluses
For most defined benefit schemes, surplus has been a theoretical issue for much of the past 20 years.
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NewsUSS confirms full restoration of benefits on course for April 2024
The Universities Superannuation Scheme has confirmed that restoring benefits cut last year will cost less than employers and staff are currently paying into the pension scheme.
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NewsTPR publishes EDI guidance for scheme trustees and sponsors
The Pensions Regulator has published equality, diversity and inclusion guidance for pension scheme governing bodies and employers.
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OpinionDB pensions: Only five years left?
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.
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NewsBank of England: LDI strategies need 250bp collateral buffer
The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee announced on March 29 a recommendation to the Pensions Regulator that it specify “minimum levels of resilience” in relation to pension schemes’ liability-driven investments to avoid damaging feedback loops from being forced sellers of assets.
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NewsDB funding code is full of unintended consequences
The Pensions Regulator’s draft defined benefit funding code has received some praise, yet for many it falls short of providing both stronger governance and greater certainty for schemes and sponsors.
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NewsDelaying state pension age rise by 7 years will cost £60bn, says IFS
Delaying the planned increase in the state pension age by seven years to 2044-46 from 2037-39 is likely to cost the exchequer more than £60bn, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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NewsLCP toughens up its ESG policies
LCP has launched a responsible investment philosophy designed to focus industry attention on concrete action to address systemic risks posed by issues such as climate change and inequality.
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NewsUse dashboards delay to achieve ‘dramatic improvements’ in data
Pensions schemes that apply data matching techniques could see “dramatic improvements in the quality of their member data”, and should use the dashboards programme delay to get their data “dashboard ready”, according to new research sponsored by LCP.
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NewsMPs to examine future of DB pension schemes
The Work and Pensions Committee has launched an inquiry that will review defined benefit pension schemes and the challenges they pose to members, trustees, employers and the Pensions Regulator.
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NewsBudget 2023: LGPS must move faster on asset consolidation
The government is challenging Local Government Pension Scheme funds in England and Wales to move further and faster on consolidating assets, chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced in the spring Budget on March 15.