All articles by Maxine Kelly – Page 4
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OpinionEditorial: Drivers and disincentives
So taking the politics out of pensions is proving harder than this sensible-sounding phrase suggests.
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Opinion
How is UK pension schemes’ appetite for smart beta changing?
KPMG's Simeon Willis, Towers Watson's Stephen Miles, State Street Global Advisors' Richard J Hannam, Cambridge Associates' Alex Koriath and Indexx Markets' Ronan Kearney, debate the popularity of smart beta among UK institutional investors in the first of a four-part roundtable.
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OpinionEditorial: Not Tesco's finest hour
Closing a defined benefit scheme to future accrual is no longer considered a controversial move in the private sector.
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OpinionEditorial: Powerful performances
No matter how often political sparring is proved a turnoff for voters, it’s a necessary part of the process and an accepted piece of theatre.
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OpinionEditorial: Education and catastrophe
The disconnect between the UK equity markets and long-term investors’ objectives that led to 2011’s Kay review provided both sides with some key recommendations to improve this relationship.
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OpinionEditorial: Drum roll...
So there you have it. By the time you read this, swaths of people will have battered down their providers’ doors to get their mitts on their pension pots, to splash on posh cars and cruises. Or not.
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OpinionEditorial: Inside the control room
The confirmation last week that we’ve hit a patch of ‘noflation’ – expected to become deflation from this month – did not come as a surprise to many.
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News
Half would sell their annuity, majority want 90% of value
The consultation to lay the groundwork for a secondary market for annuities, announced in last week’s Budget speech, will allowaround 5m pensioners having the option to cash in the products in exchange for a lump sum.
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News
Lincolnshire fund enters admin-sharing deal with West Yorks
Lincolnshire Pension Fund has teamed up with West Yorkshire Pension Fund on benefit administration in order to deliver cost savings, in the latest example of local authority collaboration.
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OpinionEditorial: Nobody got hurt. For now
Editorial: Despite the inevitable post-Budget hole-picking, you have to hand it George Osborne who did exactly what he set out to do in this year’s announcement. He must be feeling very smug.
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News
Recycled annuities could offer income for DB, but buyer beware
Alongside Wednesday’s Budget, the government will launch a consultation on the viability of a secondary market to allow pensioners to cash in their annuities, but questions remain over who would buy them.
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OpinionEditorial: Confronting liquidity risk
Appraisals from audience members exiting the auditoriums at last week’s National Association of Pension Funds’ investment conference was that the sessions were ‘interesting’ or ‘insightful’ – for some, so much so that they were fizzing with enthusiasm.
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News
Make it personal: Qantas's key to engagement success
NAPF Investment Conference 2015: Personalising communication is critical to achieving meaningful member engagement, said the chief of Australian super Qantas, after it gained a one in four response from an innovative campaign.
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News
NAPF launching scheme guide to investment management agreements
The contractual relationship between trustees and their asset managers will come into focus in a new guide to investment management agreements, being launched by the National Association of Pension Funds tomorrow.
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News
Why the regulator will not publish a definitive list of AE schemes
The industry has given a mixed response to the Pensions Regulator’s decision not to publish a list of auto-enrolment schemes available to smaller employers, with some suggesting it could do more.
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News
Aon lifestyling failure leaves members exposed to risk assets
Twenty defined contribution pension schemes administered by Aon Hewitt have seen delays to their members’ derisking strategies, leaving them exposed to risk assets for up to four years longer than intended.
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News
DB mastertrusts grow but funding risks drag on demand
Competition is growing in the defined benefit mastertrust market as providers promise the benefits of scale, but experts have urged employers to be mindful about the risks of these structures.
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News
European pension funds swarm into alts for yield
European pension funds moved deeper into alternative investments last year as they sought fresh avenues of returns and liability matching in tricky market conditions.
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News
Default fund design hamstrung by lack of behavioural data
Defined contribution experts have said a lack of sufficient data on members’ likely reaction to April's pension flexibilities is leaving default fund design in a state of limbo.
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News
Schemes win extended reprieve from European OTC clearing rules
The European Commission has recommended schemes be given a two-year reprieve from over-the-counter derivative clearing requirements. But industry experts still expect pension funds to end up paying higher transaction costs.