Joe Dabrowski
OpinionNet surpluses: A paradigm shift for DB pensions
With rising interest rates leading to significant improvements in defined benefit scheme funding over the last year, policymakers face profound choices about the future of the regulatory regime.
OpinionSuperfunds: A safer prospect for members?
Aside from the constant, almost deafening chatter surrounding Brexit, the Department for Work and Pensions consultation on defined benefit consolidation – or superfunds – has been the talk of the pensions town over the past few weeks.
OpinionSuperfunds play vital role in the future of DB
For the 11m savers relying on defined benefit pensions for their retirement there has been some much needed good news in recent months.
OpinionIncreasing TPR powers vital to protect DB schemes
From the blog: The white paper on protecting defined benefit schemes will go under the spotlight on Wednesday with both the Pensions Regulator and pensions minister giving oral evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee as part of its inquiry.
OpinionSPA increase could hurt under-saved Generation X
While some industries experience peaks and troughs of activity, the pensions industry seems to be in a near constant frenzied state, with the spotlight now falling on the state pension.
OpinionPLSA: Regulator should provide protections on index switching
The Pension and Lifetime Savings Association’s defined benefit policy team recently took to the road to hear what members thought of the proposals outlined in the government’s green paper on ‘Security and sustainability in defined benefit schemes’ and our recent report on superfunds.