Editorial: Chancellor Philip Hammond has tried his best to deliver an Autumn Statement the pensions industry would for once be pleased with.
Latest articles from Sandra Wolf
Delayed gratification and the spirit of the 60s
Editorial: The marshmallow test is one of the best demonstrations of humans struggling to opt for delayed reward over instant gratification.
Industry divided over CPIH
The Office for National Statistics recently said it will make the consumer price index including owner-occupiers’ housing costs its preferred measure for gauging inflation next year, so should the government follow suit for pension indexation and revaluation?
What the industry wants to see in the Autumn Statement
Autumn Statements became mini Budget announcements under the previous chancellor. Looking to the new regime, what advice does the industry have for Philip Hammond before he announces his first set of plans on November 23?
Trumponomics
Editorial: The US election result should not really have come as a surprise to UK investors who experienced the Brexit vote.
Diageo’s Care scheme proposal highlights struggle over DB provision
Two unions are balloting members over industrial action in a pensions dispute with Diageo, as the UK-based multinational proposes replacing its final salary scheme with a career average arrangement.
Self-employed underdogs?
Editorial: If you ask Uber drivers why they work for the app, they generally reply that while the pay per client is less, there is no downtime between customers and they are free to choose when they want to work.
Bringing pension schemes together
Editorial: The efforts made to outdo each other with yet another game, more champagne or an enormous plastic animal at the stand have reached a new level at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s Annual Conference this year.
The interview: Lesley Titcomb, chief executive of TPR
In an interview with Pensions Expert, chief executive of the Pensions Regulator Lesley Titcomb gives her views on why the regulator needs greater powers, where scheme consolidation makes most sense, and why the debate around defined benefit should not be had in isolation.
Autumn (Statement) mood
From the blog: More than a month to go until the Autumn Statement, and the first shots are already being fired.
While the Treasury is familiarly tight-lipped ahead of its official announcement, this is less the case elsewhere.
Hargreaves Lansdown’s proposal for age-based pensions tax relief has recently been speculated to be under consideration by the Treasury, but some pensions veterans have slashed the idea as “terrible in practice”.