All Retirement articles – Page 26
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News
Annuity brokering grows as managers seek value for savers
News analysis: Nearly half of schemes have or are planning to put in place annuity brokering services for their members, but experts warn this may not be enough to achieve value at retirement.
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News
Employees being left in lurch over annuities
In this edition of Informed Comment, Baker Tilly’s Mark Wilson looks at the factors in achieving good-value annuities, and whether employers are doing enough to help staff.
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NewsAutumn Statement 2013: How it affects your scheme
Today’s Autumn Statement left schemes mulling state pension rises, a boost to exchange traded fund investment and an option to allow scheme members to top up their additional state pension.
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Features
The DC Debate – improving retirement income
This quarter's debate sees experts discuss the gender gap, decumulation and illiquidity, as schemes strive to attain the best outcome for members close to retirement age.
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Opinion
Editorial: To the collective benefit
An eloquent voice has been added to those calling for the introduction of collective defined contribution pension schemes in this country to drive better outcomes for savers.
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Opinion
Editorial: Lessons from Norway
Last week saw a four-hour strike by firefighters in England and Wales owing to changes to their pension terms which will force them to work for longer.
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Opinion
Crucial retirement tools to benefit your members
The Annuity Bureau’s Richard Williams sets out the tools and techniques that schemes and employers can use to get value for their scheme members at retirement, in the latest Technical View.
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NewsRoyal British Legion to expand Pie after £1m saving
The Royal British Legion is working on a pension increase exchange offer for members coming up to retirement, after an exercise with the scheme’s pensioners last year knocked £1m off its deficit.
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Opinion
Why 'healthy' life expectancy matters to members
Longevity has rooted itself as a near-intractable problem for sponsors of defined benefit pension schemes while at the same time being an apparently good-news story for everyone else.
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FeaturesBA sees steady flexible retirement take-up
British Airways has seen steady take-up of its new flexible retirement option since it was introduced in October to provide members with better flexibility in how they access their workplace savings.
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Features
Reed Elsevier ups contributions to engage members
Reed Elsevier Pension Plan has increased the employer contributions, up to a maximum of 11 per cent, for members of its defined contribution scheme.
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Features
Case study: M&S’s approach to DC retirement
Engagement with members over their retirement date should start when they join the scheme, Marks & Spencer’s (M&S) technical manager has argued.
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Features
Improve member knowledge, regulator warns on DC
Defined contribution schemes risk punishment by the Pensions Regulator if they fail to tell members the impact of contributions on their retirement. Ian Smith looks at how DHL and others are meeting the challenge.
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FeaturesNationwide uses flexible retirement to engage staff
The UK’s biggest building society has benefited from letting staff draw their pension while continuing to work, since the abolition last year of the default retirement age (DRA).
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FeaturesBritish Steel shares longevity risk with members
The £11.4bn scheme has followed other large schemes – including John Lewis and BAE Systems – in using longevity adjustment factors to manage risk
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News
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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FeaturesTesco: Control the cost of losing contracting out
The government is plotting a statutory override to help schemes remove contracting-out rules. Tesco's group pensions director tells Ian Smith how to control the cost of the changes.