All Quantum Advisory articles – Page 2

  • Features

    Can you run your scheme better than a sole trustee?

    2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

    Analysis: Defined benefit trustee boards are finding it increasingly difficult to source a full complement of member-nominated trustees, as final salary becomes a legacy benefit system. Is the rise of the sole corporate trustee inevitable?

  • News

    Consultants commit to flagging ESG factors

    2018-01-22T00:00:00Z

    Sixteen investment consultancy firms have said that they will seek to ensure that pension schemes take into account environmental, social and governance factors where they are financially material. 

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    Delivering the ill health pension

    2018-01-17T00:00:00Z

    Any other business: Illness is an unconventional path to a pension transfer. But for the thousands of employees every year rendered unable to work through sickness, surviving financially through the mercy of an early pension might make all the difference.

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    News

    Notts expands local property investment

    2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

    The £4.9bn Nottinghamshire County Council Pension Fund has increased its commitment to local property investment. The fund has added £10m to its local property fund and has expanded the geographical area where it will invest.

  • News

    CIDC schemes divide industry

    2018-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Collective individual defined contribution schemes may be the only viable form of collective pension scheme in the short run, according to David Blake, director at the Pensions Institute, Cass Business School.

  • News

    All FTSE 350 DB schemes could be closed in 10 years

    2017-12-05T00:00:00Z

    New research predicts that all defined benefit schemes of companies in the FTSE 350 index are likely to be closed to future benefit accrual within 10 years.

  • News

    DB advisers could be sued over climate change risk

    2017-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Defined benefit investment consultants and actuaries may be legally bound to advise on material climate change risk, according to new research.

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    Features

    JT Dove lowers deficit following mortality study

    2017-11-07T00:00:00Z

    The £26m JT Dove Pension Scheme has reduced its forecast deficit by 11 per cent following a medically underwritten mortality study.

  • News

    PPF consultation on contingent assets will create 'winners and losers'

    2017-10-20T00:00:00Z

    The Pension Protection Fund has responded to concerns about ambiguity in the wording of its contingent asset agreements, with the launch of a consultation to examine the role of such assets in calculating the PPF levy.

  • Phil Farrell
    Opinion

    The limitations of financial advice

    2017-08-21T00:00:00Z

    As with most things in life, there is rarely a single, unequivocal answer to a pensions issue such as how to prepare for retirement. The other factors preventing us from navigating a clear and simple path to the later life we desire are our own personal biases.

  • News

    Ideas from overseas can up engagement, report finds

    2017-05-26T00:00:00Z

    The Pensions Policy Institute has published a report looking at consumer engagement with pensions and financial products across the world, highlighting numerous lessons the UK can learn from overseas.

  • Phil Farrell
    Opinion

    How employers can learn the lessons of auto-enrolment

    2017-05-08T00:00:00Z

    With more than 9m new pension savers predicted by 2020, it is fair to say that the aim to get more of the working population to save for their retirement has been a success.

  • News

    Employee pension preference could brighten the DC picture

    2017-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Weighting an employee benefits package towards pension contributions can make a role more attractive to high-quality candidates, a new report has found, showing residual interest in retirement saving among the defined contribution generations.

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    Features

    More pensioners to be offered Pie at Metal Box

    2017-03-08T00:00:00Z

    The Metal Box Pension Scheme is planning to offer a pension increase exchange to more pensioner members this year, having offered one to some members in 2015.

  • Opinion

    Reviving the argument for an independent pension commission

    2015-07-24T00:00:00Z

    In March Dame Anne Begg, the chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, said: “A new independent pensions commission is now needed to provide coherence in pensions policy, and to build public confidence and long-term stability in the system.”

  • Phil Farrell
    Opinion

    How scheme life assurance benefits can affect lifetime allowance

    2015-05-04T00:00:00Z

    From the blog: The standard lifetime allowance is being reduced again, this time to £1m. That’s a reduction of 20 per cent from the current level of £1.25m and 44 per cent from the LTA’s peak level of £1.8m in April 2010.

  • Opinion

    DB-DC transfer requests will rise. Here is how to handle them

    2015-03-02T00:00:00Z

    It had long been the case that transfers from defined benefit schemes were looked upon as being disadvantageous for all but a few.