All articles by Sandra Wolf – Page 7
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Opinion
Dashboard, dashboard on the wall...
Editorial: I won’t mention the Department for Work and Pensions, the new cabinet or Ros Altmann, although there would be plenty to say about them. You can read it here.
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OpinionA tale of two departments
Editorial: Many might have breathed a sigh of relief early this week, when Andrea Leadsom quit the race to lead the Conservative party and it was clear Britain would have a new prime minister a lot earlier than expected.
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OpinionPlaying the waiting game
Editorial: As the reality of the leave vote is sinking in, the British stiff upper lip is invoked incessantly by the pensions industry in an attempt to convince themselves and each other that things can’t be as bad as they are.
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NewsPensions shrouded in uncertainty as UK votes to leave
The pound fell on Friday following news the United Kingdom had voted to leave the European Union, but experts warned schemes not to overreact.
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Opinion
TV, tweets and voters
From the blog: Energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd’s attack on Boris Johnson during the ITV referendum debate earlier this month included a jibe that the former London mayor, while the life and soul of the party, could not be trusted to drive you home afterwards.
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OpinionUncertain borders
Editorial: As communication specialists propose showing the decisions of other scheme members to engage their peers, some pension funds have started doing precisely that.
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OpinionTata, BHS and the rest
Editorial: From Port Talbot to London, defined benefit pensions have become the worry of the nation – probably rightly so.
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OpinionPools must not leak
Editorial: Asset pooling makes sense, but getting it to work can be a headache – that was the general consensus among Local Government Pension Scheme representatives at our LGPS Leadership Briefing this week.
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NewsCentrica commits £300m to unleveraged infrastructure equity
Unleveraged infrastructure is a growing part of Centrica Pension Scheme’s portfolio as the fund seeks to access long-term, stable cash flows, but others warn about the regulatory risk associated with the asset class.
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OpinionLiabilities for sale
Editorial: I admit, I almost never go into the British Homes Stores shop on the high street of where I live. Neither do many other people, it seems.
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News
Women undersave due to childcare, but AE carer credits unlikely
Women do not save enough for pensions due to the persistence of the breadwinner model and a lack of confidence in their own financial aptitude, a new study shows. Despite this, a proposal to introduce carer credits to auto-enrolment was rebuffed by the pensions minister this week.
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OpinionAutomatic choice
Editorial: Saving should be made easy. Savings vehicles should be trusted by people, so that they are more likely to contribute into them. I don’t think anyone would disagree with that. But what about pension saving through auto-enrolment?
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OpinionBackbook bonanza
Editorial: Two giants are congratulating each other on a massive deal. Pension liabilities worth £6bn are to change hands between Dutch insurer Aegon's UK subsidiary and Rothesay Life, the bulk annuity specialist set up 10 years ago.
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OpinionFirefighting in Port Talbot
Editorial: Reports of the government being urged by Labour MPs to take over Tata Steel UK until a private buyer is found dominated the headlines last week, after the business was put up for sale by its owner.
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OpinionDisruption, dispute – discontent?
The news that Royal Bank of Scotland is shifting £18m of annual national insurance contributions – the increase it will face when contracting-out kicks in on April 6 – to 27,000 defined benefit members may not faze pensions lawyers, given it is legal to do so.
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OpinionArtificial sweetener
Editorial: The Lifetime Isa announced in the Budget, while presented in a sweet wrapper marked 'help the young', is not easily swallowed by some, and not everyone agrees what the actual taste will be.
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OpinionA pensions power struggle
Editorial: The chancellor has pulled another rabbit out of the red case. This time it’s a tame European breed: the ‘no change on pensions tax relief ahead of the referendum’ kind.
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News
PLSA launches DB taskforce as deficits spiral
PLSA Investment Conference 2016: While the combined deficit in the PPF 7800 index has reached £322.8bn, the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association said it has launched a taskforce to “tackle the problems faced by defined benefit pension schemes”.
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NewsSchemes urged to prepare for bad investment outcomes
PLSA Investment Conference 2016: The question of what powers trustees have – if any – when things go wrong on the investment provider side received some surprising answers at the PLSA Investment Conference held in Edinburgh this week.
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OpinionAnd the nominees are…
Editorial: Leonardo DiCaprio finally collected his first Oscar for best actor at the recent Academy Awards ceremony, but in our view the red carpet should not just be reserved for Hollywood greats.