All Gallagher articles – Page 6
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Features
Pearl ups corporate bonds to manage rate risks
Pearl Group Staff Pension Scheme has increased its allocation to corporate bonds and reduced investment in growth assets to lower its exposure to fluctuations in the market.
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NewsStrathclyde keeps local focus for property investments
Strathclyde Pension Fund has established a property fund that will make investments of less than £10m in local commercial real estate.
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News
Fidelity appoints PTL for mastertrust governance
Fidelity Worldwide Investment has appointed PTL as the professional trustee of its mastertrust in a move that will see the governance of the scheme run independently, as employers look to manage potential conflicts of interest in the structure.
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News
Total reward model complementary to AE
Pensions experts have highlighted the effectiveness of a total reward model in giving employees a positive attitude towards pensions under auto-enrolment, revealed a report released today.
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News
How schemes can manage cash flows
Schemes are being advised to reconsider investments as almost a third of defined benefit pension schemes expect to be cash flow negative this year, a survey has found.
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News
How draft contribution rules impact your scheme
The Pensions Regulator's draft contribution requirements could have a significant impact on schemes and providers by pressuring them to help police employer contributions under auto-enrolment.
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News
Survey: half of DC schemes failing investment duty
Data analysis: Consultants have raised concerns over a lack of investment focus from defined contribution schemes, after research found little more than half of schemes had recently reviewed their investment principles.
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Opinion
How real assets fit into your inflation battle
‘Uncharted territory’ is the common presage increasingly heard across the industry whenever inflation and pensions are uttered in the same breath.
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NewsDC daily pricing blocking illiquid investments
Liquidity requirements for defined contribution schemes are hampering their investment returns and ability to compete with defined benefit plans on the replacement income provided in retirement, an institutional investor group has warned.
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News
Prudential scheme sets multi-asset AE default
Prudential Staff Pension Scheme has made some tweaks to its benefits set-up to meet the legislative requirements for auto-enrolment, including setting its multi-asset lifecycle strategy as the scheme default.
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Features
Singapore Airlines case shows importance of clear rules
The ongoing Singapore Airlines case highlights the importance of the diligent drafting of scheme rules. Pippa Stephens looks at the ways schemes can avoid mistakes when writing and maintaining deeds.
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Features
Doctors ruling ups AE worker cost for employers
A private medical practice has been forced to extend its workplace benefits to self-employed practitioners in a legal case that will increase auto-enrolment costs for employers.
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Features
USS helps members beat AVCs tax charge
The universities scheme made a late amendment to its added years benefit to help members avoid an unforeseen annual allowance charge.
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FeaturesWedgwood shows need to revisit s75 debt rules
With Wedgwood having to sell its pottery collection to fund its £134m pension deficit, Pippa Stephens looks at how understanding section 75 debt could minimise insolvency risk.
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FeaturesIBM revamps DC default to improve flexibility
IBM is offering greater flexibility to members in their investment choices, with higher and lower risk decumulation strategies available from May.
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Features
Brent sticks by emerging markets despite poor returns
Local government schemes Brent and Lincolnshire have said they will maintain their emerging markets exposure despite short-term underperformance.
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Features
Consultant survey: Fixed income reappraised post-2008
In the first of four special reports, we look at how the UK’s leading investment consultants have changed their views of fixed income since the financial crisis.