All articles by Ian Smith – Page 9
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Opinion
Editorial: Time to review your auto-enrolment spend?
The spending review seems to have passed by without directly impacting workplace pension schemes.
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News
Fidelity to launch mastertrust on employer demand
Fidelity Worldwide Investment is to launch a mastertrust in response to demand it has seen from blue-chip companies for tougher governance and bespoke investment strategies.
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Opinion
Editorial: Informed debate
Over the past six months Pensions Week has been putting effort into driving online debate on the issues that regularly grace these pages. So I thought I’d highlight some of the comments in this week’s busiest LinkedIn thread on our group page.
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FeaturesSelex adds blended funds to smooth savings growth
Selex Pension Scheme has launched a series of four blended funds as part of an overhaul of its defined contribution default investment options, to smooth out volatility for its members.
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Features
West Sussex turns off private equity tap
West Sussex Pension Fund has decided to reduce over time its private equity allocation, concluding its performance does not justify its liquidity risk and the “luck” involved in manager selection.
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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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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: 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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OpinionEnsuring quality in your auto-enrolment scheme
Back in 2011, the government raised the idea of colour-coding workplace pensions. As Pensions Week reported at the time, the idea was to provide employers with some kind of ratings system to denote the value of their pension schemes, and to give employees a better view of the health of their retirement savings.
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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.