All Features articles – Page 43
-
Features
IAS 19 changes to drive derisking
Changes to accounting standards will bring sponsors and schemes closer together, and provide an impetus to derisk, according to consultants.
-
Features
Case study: Hertfordshire saves £1.6m with LPFA
With local authorities seeking efficiencies across the board, the London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) has secured its first administration client outside of the capital.
-
Features
PPF levy dilemma for small schemes
The Pension Protection Fund’s new levy framework is likely to lead to schemes derisking, but smaller schemes with sophisticated investment strategies may lose out, consultants have warned.
-
Features
Survey finds scheme failure on managing deficits
Trustees and employers have identified funding deficits as the most important scheme risk – but confessed they have had the least success in managing it.
-
Features
Managers tussle with growing CPI complexity
As Unison considers joining the public sector juridical review of the RPI-CPI shift, schemes face growing fairness and practical challenges on amending benefits, lawyers have warned.
-
Features
DWP calls for triennial reviews of DC defaults
The Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) guidance on providing default options will prompt tighter governance controls for some schemes in the run up to auto-enrolment.
-
Features
Are ETVs always inappropriate? Ask a BA pilot
The pensions minister is wrong in condemning schemes for offering cash incentives for defined benefit (DB) members to switch to defined contribution (DC) plans.
-
Features
Admin warning on DB-DC transfers
Defined benefit (DB) schemes considering offering member transfers to defined contribution (DC) arrangements have been warned of administrative costs and falling foul of the regulator.
-
Features
Schemes called to engage sponsors over s75 debt
With the government set to work more flexibility into section 75 debt obligations, schemes have been urged to monitor how sponsors take advantage of legislative relaxations.
-
Features
Schemes called to urgently review TPAs for 2012
Employers unprepared for auto-enrolment are leaving schemes facing a tough deadline to push through administrative reforms.
-
Features
Trustees use discretion on gender-reassignment
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has created a team to deal with transsexual people entitled to added state pension after they undertook gender reassignment before 2005 legislation.
-
Features
More than two-thirds of buyout quotes fail to transact
Consultants and insurers have urged schemes to better prepare for derisking, following revelations that just one in three buyout quotations lead to transaction.
-
Features
Centrica derisks with 15% switch to bonds
As global stock markets crash, Pippa Stephens looks at how some schemes have derisked through dramatic moves out of equities and into bonds.
-
Features
RPMI tackles covenant risk with employer ratings
RPMI has rated its more than 150 different sponsors according to how strong their covenant is, as it assesses how to improve the scheme’s security.