All Pan Trustees articles – Page 3

  • LDI mandates
    News

    Smaller schemes take advantage of pooled funds in bumper year for LDI

    2015-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Hedged liabilities grew to a record £657bn last year as medium-sized schemes flowed into pooled mandates, but experts have flagged a concentration risk from liability-driven investment's three dominant providers.

  • News

    More clarity needed on schemes' post-reform offerings

    2015-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Leadership of DC summit: Panellists demanded a quick response from trustees and providers on defined contribution scheme design, following the introduction of the pension freedoms.

  • Features

    Keeping track of value in DC

    2015-05-29T00:00:00Z

    VFM and GMO are the key drivers for defined contribution pensions in 2015. But what do these handy acronyms actually mean and how are they being measured?

  • Getty Images
    Features

    Cutting scheme costs in lean times

    2015-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Any other business: Whitehall braced itself for a further 100,000 job losses over the next five years, as the new government announced cost-cutting measures across the civil service this week.

  • Cameron
    News

    As the result shock fades, attention turns to next pensions minister

    2015-05-08T00:00:00Z

    General election 2015: The Conservatives’ election triumph on Friday, alongside a near whitewash by the Scottish National party north of the border, has raised several questions about how the fallout will affect pensions.

  • Features

    Are you an informed investor?

    2015-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Any other business: Following a romp to all-time highs the FTSE 100 stuttered last week, with slips by multinationals and financials. More than ever, trustees must be engaged investors to ensure scheme decisions deliver good outcomes.

  • Features

    What does the future hold for LDI?

    2015-03-17T00:00:00Z

    Aviva Investors' Mark Versey, Legal & General Investment Management's Laura Brown, KPMG's Simeon Willis, AMNT committee member and Lend Lease Pension Scheme trustee, Alan Gander, Pan Trustees' Mike Roberts, Buck Consultants at Xerox's Celene Lee and State Street Global Advisors' Howard Kearns, take a look into the future of liability-driven investment strategy, in the final part of this debate.

  • Features

    Is your board being torn by divergent interests?

    2015-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Any other business: The Financial Conduct Authority’s recent call for evidence on transaction fee disclosure is further evidence of a tightening up on charges, but in-scheme adviser conflicts also pose a threat to cost-efficiency.

  • Features

    How can small schemes get smart with LDI?

    2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Aviva Investors' Mark Versey, Legal & General Investment Management's Laura Brown, KPMG's Simeon Willis, AMNT committee member and Lend Lease Pension Scheme trustee, Alan Gander, Pan Trustees' Mike Roberts, Buck Consultants at Xerox's Celene Lee and State Street Global Advisors' Howard Kearns, discuss how LDI can benefit small schemes given the correct advice, in the second part of this roundtable.

  • Features

    How will LDI portfolios withstand current inflation falls and low yields?

    2015-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Aviva Investors' Mark Versey, Legal & General Investment Management's Laura Brown, KPMG's Simeon Willis, AMNT committee member and Lend Lease Pension Scheme trustee, Alan Gander, Pan Trustees' Mike Roberts, Buck Consultants at Xerox's Celene Lee and State Street Global Advisors' Howard Kearns, debate whether now is a good time to embark on a liability-driven investment strategy, in the first of a four-part discussion.

  • Opinion

    With ALM gizmos, are we seeing the gamification of pensions data?

    2014-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Any other business: Gamification, according to Gabe Zicherman, a technology guru and chair of GSummit, is “the process of using game thinking and game dynamics to engage audiences and solve problems”. 

  • News

    Smaller schemes combine service provision to reduce legacy burden

    2014-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Leading benefit consultancies have reported more small to medium-sized schemes are bundling services under a single provider in response to a growth in legacy arrangements and to benefit from economies of scale.

  • Opinion

    Avoiding a talking shop: how to get more out of your trustee meeting

    2014-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Any other business: Economist and diplomat John Galbraith once said: “Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.” But with fiduciary duty weighing heavily on trustees, board meetings must be a forum for effective decision-making.

  • News

    Education key as employers stretch to reach pension goals

    2014-03-04T00:00:00Z

    News analysis: Companies need to better educate staff to encourage responsibility for pension saving, as research has highlighted a misalignment between employers’ goals and the outcomes of their defined contribution plans.

  • Opinion

    How to build your risk committee

    2014-02-25T00:00:00Z

    As more defined benefit schemes follow a derisking plan towards their end point, monitoring and managing risk grows ever more important.

  • Features

    The DC Debate – how will the government's focus on quality help managers?

    2013-10-04T00:00:00Z

    This edition of our quarterly feature asks DC experts what they would like to see come out of the focus on quality standards, the effect of mastertrusts on the market and getting value through scale.

  • Features

    Civil service payout shows need for comms care

    2012-12-20T00:00:00Z

    The Principle Civil Service Pension Scheme was forced to pay one former Pension Protection Fund worker compensation following incorrect information in the scheme's booklet, the Pensions Ombudsman has ruled.