All articles by Sandra Wolf – Page 6
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OpinionSelf-employed underdogs?
Editorial: If you ask Uber drivers why they work for the app, they generally reply that while the pay per client is less, there is no downtime between customers and they are free to choose when they want to work.
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NewsDiageo’s Care scheme proposal highlights struggle over DB provision
Two unions are balloting members over industrial action in a pensions dispute with Diageo, as the UK-based multinational proposes replacing its final salary scheme with a career average arrangement.
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OpinionThe interview: Lesley Titcomb, chief executive of TPR
In an interview with Pensions Expert, chief executive of the Pensions Regulator Lesley Titcomb gives her views on why the regulator needs greater powers, where scheme consolidation makes most sense, and why the debate around defined benefit should not be had in isolation.
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OpinionBringing pension schemes together
Editorial: The efforts made to outdo each other with yet another game, more champagne or an enormous plastic animal at the stand have reached a new level at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s Annual Conference this year.
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Opinion
Autumn (Statement) mood
From the blog: More than a month to go until the Autumn Statement, and the first shots are already being fired.
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Opinion
The savings crisis: Top-up v save more tomorrow
Analysis: The debate about tax relief on pension contributions and incentives for saving has kept industry and policymakers entertained (or unamused) for five or six years now.
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OpinionThe gap between theory and practice
Editorial: Companies with greater gender and ethnic diversity at board level perform better financially, consultancy McKinsey has shown. It seems the 2014 research has now filtered down to investors.
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OpinionLifting the curtain on transaction costs
Editorial: The Financial Conduct Authority’s proposals for transaction cost disclosure have been welcomed across the industry, but confusion has crept in over how this will affect trust-based schemes.
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News
FCA lights the way on transparency
‘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.
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Features
Retirees avoid overspending yet more become insolvent
Analysis: New figures suggest defined contribution savers reaching retirement might be overspending and increasing their risk of poverty in later years, but experts warn this could be a false alarm.
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OpinionLock the door on hackers
Editorial: Would you leave your front door open when you go out? Not if you can help it. Online, it happens a lot.
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OpinionNext stop: Retirement
Editorial: Thursday’s Pension Awareness Day has demonstrated that pensions needn’t be boring. The campaign created by communications consultancy Pension Geeks to raise public awareness about retirement planning and old age income is refreshingly grassroots-orientated and hands-on.
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News
RQM: Driving up standards or duplicating regulations?
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association has launched its Retirement Quality Mark for drawdown, but some have questioned the need for the standards in their current form.
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OpinionJust an aside
This week's article about the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee focuses on lowering risk, but also delves into the environmental, social and governance factors that played a role in Nilgosc's decision-making.
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Opinion
Another pensions headline
Editorial: After the dust settled on the Robert Maxwell scandal, for many years pensions news was not exactly the stuff of dreams for journalists. But this year all that looks set to change, as pensions are now right up there alongside Britain's Olympic triumphs and conflict in the Middle East.
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OpinionThe final frontier: Promises of EMD performance
EMD survey: Performance is what drives investors towards – and at times away from – emerging market debt. For pension funds, the hard numbers count, so how has the asset class fared recently?
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Opinion
A glass half full: How investor sentiment towards EMD is changing
EMD survey: A higher birth rate and a growing middle class eager to spend money on goods and services are often touted benefits of investment in emerging markets, but something else is driving flows as well.
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Opinion
Keep calm and monitor your covenant
Editorial: The Bank of England failed to buy the targeted amount of long-dated gilts on Tuesday, and according to consultancy Hymans Robertson, low yields have now pushed DB deficits to £1tn.
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Opinion
A cut too far?
Editorial: It was expected, but that makes it no less painful: pension scheme trustees are licking their wounds after the Bank of England decided yesterday that a further cut in the bank rate would help the UK economy back on its feet, together with more quantitative easing.
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Opinion
Value for trustee money?
Editorial: The new defined contribution code that came into force this week is, by and large, being welcomed by the pensions industry, which lauded the focus on legal advice (Sackers), as well as its emphasis on administration (PASA) and security of assets (Working Party on DC Governance).