Paul McGlone
OpinionIndustry must not be defeatist on dashboards
Last year, I attended an event discussing the biggest challenges facing the UK pensions industry, and one topic kept coming up.
OpinionThe end is nigh for DB pensions
In 2001, I returned from a year working in Canada to a UK pensions industry that seemed to be changing rapidly.
OpinionThe unseen funding target
In the acclaimed novel, The City and The City, by China Miéville, residents of Besźel and Ul Qoma spend their lives “unseeing” half of the city around them. They avoid walking into people and cars that they consciously don’t see, but in their mind half of the city does not exist.
OpinionWhat might the govt’s regime for commercial consolidators entail?
As commercial consolidators of defined benefit schemes become a reality, authorisation and regulation of these consolidators is being considered.
OpinionSurplus poses opportunities and challenges for PPF
It was recently reported that the Pension Protection Fund is considering distributing some of its surplus.
OpinionIDWG cost disclosures are only the beginning
The Institutional Disclosure Working Group’s cost disclosure code has landed on the desk of the Financial Conduct Authority just under a year after the group first convened.
OpinionSmall schemes should not pin hopes on consolidators
The concept of a commercial pension consolidator appears to have quickly moved from a nice idea to nearing reality. The Pension SuperFund claims to be close to its first transaction, while others are not far behind, albeit with quite different propositions.