All articles by Ian Smith – Page 9
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FeaturesThe DC Debate – is fee push harming innovation?
This edition of our quarterly feature asks DC experts what is stifling investment innovation, and whether scheme, employer or provider is responsible for achieving good governance.
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Opinion
Editorial: Find someone who's turning
Back in 2012, Nigel Waterson, chair of Now Pensions, sat in the Pensions Week studio defending the mastertrust’s one-size-fits-all investment approach.
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Opinion
Editorial: A pat on the back?
Well done all. Fifty-six per cent of respondents to this year’s governance survey by the Pensions Regulator – published at the end of last month – feel their governance is “very” effective.
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Opinion
Have you underplayed your EMD risks?
Emerging market debt has had a busy couple of years for inflows as UK pension schemes pile into the asset class, but the latest entrants could have suffered in recent months.
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Opinion
Editorial: Greatest prize is pushing DC ahead
Last week saw the 14th annual Pension and Investment Provider Awards take place at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel.
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NewsPIPA 2013: The winners
The full list of the winners of the 14th annual Pension and Investment Provider Awards, held last night at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel.
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Opinion
Editorial: Funding – the poor relation?
Defined benefit schemes across the country breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after the European Commission bowed to increasing pressure and chopped solvency requirements from its upcoming IORP II directive.
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Opinion
Editorial: Don’t bank on inflationary cure
Mervyn King was hoping to give people something to smile about in his final economic forecast as the governor of the Bank of England – the kind of understated smile that only slightly stronger-than-expected growth and slightly lower-than-expected inflation can bring out.
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News
Associated British Foods reports 3% AE opt-out
Associated British Foods has seen a less than 3 per cent opt-out rate and significant engagement from 1,500 employees auto-enrolled in February, after an extensive awareness campaign and popular default investment strategy.
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Opinion
Editorial: Repairing the roof in the rain
Last week’s Queen’s Speech targeted “two of the major problems of our time” – state care and pension provision.
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Opinion
Editorial: Managing auto-enrolment
The arrival of auto-enrolment has been a privilege and a challenge for the pensions journalist – a chance to report on a seismic shift in a truly important industry.
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NewsLocal authority schemes choose multi-asset to limit volatility
Local authority funds have ramped up their interest in multi-asset strategies as they try to manage the impact of volatility on their investments, according to new investment data.
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FeaturesCadbury hedges fifth of assets to manage risk
Cadbury Pension Fund has decided to hedge approximately a fifth of its assets to manage the impact of interest rate and inflation changes on its pension promises.
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Opinion
Editorial: View from the top
If you are looking to improve the running of your pension fund, hiring the chief executive of the Pensions Regulator is a pretty good place to start.
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Features
Pearl beefs up covenant safeguards for DB members
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.
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Features
Aircraft scheme achieves 20% buyout uplift
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.
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FeaturesReckitt Benckiser reforms comms to engage youth
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.
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Features
Diageo scraps MND tenure limit to retain talent
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.
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Features
Case study: Great Lakes secures £60m funding deal
After using regulatory pressure and an innovative legal move to clear the path for agreement, Great Lakes UK Pension Plan secured a £60m payment from its sponsor’s parent company.
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Features
Regulator calls for proportionate DC data requests
Responding to industry criticism, the regulator has told schemeXpert.com it is interested in views on how it could "strengthen" its collection of data from defined contribution (DC) schemes.