All Law Debenture articles – Page 3

  • Opinion

    How can LDI be combined with cash flow delivery?

    2017-02-22T00:00:00Z

    How should maturing pension schemes adapt their LDI strategies to meet increasing cash flow demands, and what solutions can help them navigate collateral issues? Axa Investment Managers' Jonathan Crowther, Barnett Waddingham's Sophia Heathcoat, Dalriada Trustees' Simon Cohen, Hymans Robertson's Alen Ong, Law Debenture's David Felder and Standard Life Investments' Mark Foster discuss.

  • News

    FCA market study: All-in fee might not be all-in cure

    2017-02-17T00:00:00Z

    The consultation stage of the Financial Conduct Authority’s market review of the asset management industry closed last week, with experts welcoming the boost to transparency but remaining reticent over proposals for an all-in fee structure.

  • Opinion

    Is there still a place for triggers in LDI strategies?

    2017-02-13T00:00:00Z

    How should schemes react to never seeing their hedging triggers hit, and is a time-based strategy better suited to the current rates environment? Axa Investment Managers' Jonathan Crowther, Barnett Waddingham's Sophia Heathcoat, Dalriada Trustees' Simon Cohen, Hymans Robertson's Alen Ong, Law Debenture's David Felder and Standard Life Investments' Mark Foster pick apart the implementation issues for today's LDI investors.

  • Opinion

    What changes are needed in LDI strategies?

    2017-02-09T00:00:00Z

    Where are interest rates going to move over the next few years, and should schemes be worried by signs of rising inflation? Is cash flow the overriding concern? Axa Investment Managers' Jonathan Crowther, Barnett Waddingham's Sophia Heathcoat, Dalriada Trustees' Simon Cohen, Hymans Robertson's Alen Ong, Law Debenture's David Felder and Standard Life Investments' Mark Foster discuss.

  • News

    How has LDI changed over the last year?

    2017-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Have falling interest rates over the last year finally persuaded trustees and sponsors that yields may not revert to the mean, or do they expose liability hedging as expensive flattery of scheme balance sheets? Axa Investment Managers' Jonathan Crowther, Barnett Waddingham's Sophia Heathcoat, Dalriada Trustees' Simon Cohen, Hymans Robertson's Alen Ong, Law Debenture's David Felder and Standard Life Investments' Mark Foster discuss.

  • News

    FCA lights the way on transparency

    2016-10-05T00:00:00Z

    ‘A big flashing neon light’ marking the direction of travel on transparency has been lit by the Financial Conduct Authority with its proposal to make asset managers disclose transaction costs to defined contribution schemes.

  • News

    Chair competence key as survey highlights inefficient meetings

    2016-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Any Other Business: Pension fund trusteeship is a time-consuming role with huge responsibilities covering a wide range of topics, but are the boards running schemes using their time wisely?

  • News

    Expertise key to exploiting multi-asset solutions

    2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

    Schemes looking to multi-asset strategies to generate positive cash flow while derisking may have to turn to specialist managers to reduce their potentially significant governance burden.

  • News

    Active debt management key to exploiting bond opportunities

    2016-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Schemes hunting for cash flow in a record-low gilt yield environment are turning to corporate bonds, emerging markets and active management of their debt portfolios, a study has revealed.

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    News

    Pensions unfair to younger generation, industry says

    2016-05-05T00:00:00Z

    The current pension system is unfair to the younger generation, the majority of participants at a debate hosted by professional trustee company Law Debenture this week agreed.

  • Features

    GKN continues derisking with £53m buy-in

    2016-04-04T00:00:00Z

    Global engineering group GKN signed off a second pensioner buy-in during 2015, insuring an additional £47m of pensioner liabilities, as part of a broad strategy to manage asset and liability risk as the groups UK schemes mature.

  • News

    Named and shamed: Should trustees publicly criticise service providers?

    2016-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Any Other Business: This week, Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway created a buzz by publicly rebuking the head of marketing and communications at technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprise over an email he sent her criticising an article she had written.

  • News

    Trinity Mirror reviews advisers ahead of DC default appraisal

    2015-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Trinity Mirror Pension Plan has carried out a consultant review ahead of an appraisal of its defined contribution default fund, spurred by the introduction of the freedom and choice reforms.

  • News

    Could regulator findings spell the end of lay trustees?

    2015-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Schemes with only professional trustees are better run, research from the Pensions Regulator has today suggested, but experts have said schemes should not overlook the value of their non-professional counterparts.

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    News

    BT takes the value for money debate to its members

    2015-10-21T00:00:00Z

    BT Pension Scheme has tabled a roadshow to gather its members' views on how they define value for money, in a wider effort to boost engagement.

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    Granada appeal threatens contingent asset arrangements

    2015-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Broadcaster Granada is appealing a High Court ruling in an attempt to recover £40m of gilts from one of its pension schemes, but lawyers say the case could jeopardise other employers’ non-cash contributions.

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    Features

    Dealing with firebrands on scheme boards

    2015-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Any Other Business: Jeremy Corbyn romped to victory in the Labour leadership campaign over the weekend, prompting widespread resignations from senior party members unwilling to work under the left-wing veteran backbencher.

  • Features

    Are you managing members' income expectations?

    2015-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Any Other Business: Pensions got gritty last week. Greek pensioners took to the streets of Athens in protest against the nation's broken pension promises as Tsipras proposed further cuts to retirement income in a last-gasp ultimatum

  • Features

    Should pro trustees on scheme boards be mandatory?

    2015-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Any Other Business: The Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provisions II directive is set to be implemented across UK occupational schemes by the end of 2016, but what might the final version bring for trustee boards?

  • Opinion

    Do schemes fully understand their fixed income risks?

    2014-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Aon Hewitt's Tim Giles, Hymans Robertson's Carl Hitchman, Law Debenture's David Felder, M&G Investments' William Nicoll and the Pension Protection Fund's John St Hill discuss the different types of fixed income risk in the second of this three-part panel discussion.