Data analysis: Salary trumped ‘career progression’ and a ‘new challenge’ last year as the top motivation for pension professionals to change role, according to an annual remuneration and benefits survey.
Schemes could be allowed one-off GMP conversion, says minister
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February 14, 2013
Video: Pensions minister Steve Webb answers smoothing concerns and proposes a one-off guaranteed minimum pension conversion to make the equalisation process easier for defined benefit schemes, in the second of a special two-part edition of Policymakers and Decision-makers (5:11).
Webb sets out 2014 auto-enrolment simplifications
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February 13, 2013
Video: Pensions minister Steve Webb discusses the auto-enrolment simplifications being considered to help smaller employers and schemes implement the reform, in the first of a special two-part edition of Policymakers and Decision-makers (4:08).
Boost in equity mandates as schemes hunt for growth
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February 11, 2013
UK pension schemes appointed more equity managers than any other kind of mandate in 2012, surpassing alternative assets as schemes looked to diversify their holdings.
Pearl beefs up covenant safeguards for DB members
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February 11, 2013
The £1.9bn Pearl Group Staff Pension Scheme has renegotiated a series of funding conditions with its sponsor to improve security, reflecting greater innovation in how schemes are protecting members’ benefits.
Aircraft scheme achieves 20% buyout uplift
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February 4, 2013
Aircraft service company SR Technics UK’s pension scheme has secured benefits of around 20 per cent above what members would have got through the Pension Protection Fund, by investing in matched assets and improving its data.
Reckitt Benckiser reforms comms to engage youth
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January 31, 2013
The household and health products company’s scheme has made a series of changes to its communications as part of a drive to encourage younger and lower-paid members to put away more for their retirement.
Diageo scraps MND tenure limit to retain talent
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January 28, 2013
Diageo Pension Scheme has scrapped the time limit on the service of its member-nominated directors to avoid a talent drain, as schemes balance members’ democratic rights with continuity in decision-making.
Company schemes choose property over infrastructure
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January 28, 2013
Property beat infrastructure as the most popular alternative investment among UK corporate pension schemes in the final quarter of last year, investment data have shown.
PW Review: How Cookson constructed a fair pensioner buy-in
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January 10, 2013
Video: Cookson Group Pension Plan manager John Reeve, and LCP principal Emma Watkins, discuss how schemes can construct pensioner buy-ins that are fair and good value for their entire membership, in this first PW Review (5:58).
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