All Features articles – Page 2
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FeaturesBudget 2024: Time to reconsider salary sacrifice?
Experts have urged employers to review their pension contribution models and consider salary sacrifice arrangements after the chancellor announced an increase to company national insurance payments.
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FeaturesCulture clash: bringing AI into pensions
Elizabeth Pfeuti reports from the PLSA Annual Conference on how new technology is dividing, but also inspiring schemes to deliver for their members
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FeaturesDashboards Nine-Nine: Aviva’s approach, and legacy DC pensions
Independent pensions dashboards consultant Richard Smith speaks to Aviva in this latest instalment exploring how providers are preparing for pensions dashboards over the next few months.
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FeaturesHow LDI managers are getting ready for the rest of 2024
Following recent warnings about a potential return of deflation, the onus is on LDI managers to ensure their portfolios are prepared.
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FeaturesWhat Scottish Widows’ app tells us about the future of dashboards
Dashboards expert Richard Smith continues his series exploring how some of the leading pension providers are preparing for the introduction of pension dashboards.
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FeaturesIs better funding leading to changes to valuation dates?
After the BBC decided to bring forward its triennial valuation in light of improved funding, Pensions Expert looks at whether more schemes are likely to follow.
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FeaturesAre Canadian pension funds the right template for the LGPS?
The chancellor wants UK pension schemes to learn from their Canadian counterparts when it comes to investing in UK infrastructure. But Canadian schemes are themselves under pressure for a perceived lack of domestic investment.
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FeaturesDashboards Nine-Nine: How Nest is preparing for connection day
With nine months to go to the first dashboards connection deadline, independent pensions dashboards consultant Richard Smith presents the first in a series of profiles exploring how firms are preparing.
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FeaturesThe increasing appetite for nature-based investment
A poll by the Society of Pension Professionals has found growing interest in nature-related risks and opportunities as momentum grows globally.
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FeaturesHow master trust regulation is evolving
Master trust supervision has evolved to focus on investments, data and innovation, the Pensions Regulator (TPR) has said.
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FeaturesTime for a bitcoin revolution for UK pensions?
As bitcoin garners wider acceptance overseas, the UK pensions industry remains divided on whether it is a suitable investment, writes Niamh Smith.
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FeaturesPension policy roundup: What made the manifestos?
With the election campaign heating up before 4 July, Pensions Expert explores the main issues at stake for political parties including Reform UK, the Scottish National Party, and Plaid Cymru.
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FeaturesCDC: Making progress towards a collective goal
This year may finally see the first collective defined contribution (CDC) pension go live in the UK, but doubts remain over how the structure could benefit the wider pension landscape.
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FeaturesHow pension schemes are solving illiquid asset issues
Pensions Expert takes an in-depth look at how pension schemes, consultants and insurance companies are working to secure bulk annuity transactions despite issues caused by illiquid assets.
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FeaturesWhat CalSTRS’ data problems mean for pension funds’ climate goals
Pensions schemes should continue work on measuring and addressing climate risks despite problems they may face in calculating data, according to industry experts.
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FeaturesDC consolidation: A complex picture
With the government – and the opposition – set on consolidating defined contribution schemes, Pensions Expert explores some of the complicating factors that have yet to be addressed.
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FeaturesAddressing diversity in pension trusteeship
After TPR highlighted a lack of diversity on trustee boards, how is the sector evolving to reflect a changing member population?
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FeaturesPension freedoms 10 years on: A progress report
It’s a decade since the government announced the end of compulsory annuitisation. What effect has it had?
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FeaturesWhat do national insurance cuts mean for the state pension?
The second cut to National Insurance in six months, and growing rumours of the tax’s eventual abolishment, have raised questions about what this means for the state pension.
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FeaturesHow are DB schemes changing the gilts market?
Data from Bloomberg Intelligence suggests that DB schemes could sell out of the gilt market completely in seven years. But is it accurate?