All scheme funding articles – Page 31
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OpinionEditorial: Time to cash out?
The strengthening equity market, mixed with higher gilt yields, is giving pension scheme investors a tough decision on whether and when to derisk.
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Opinion
Concerns of rate rises is putting schemes off LDI
Is lack of understanding holding scheme back from liability-driven investment derivative strategies? Yes – but not in the way you might think.
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NewsSchemes take more holistic approach to risk management
News analysis: More schemes are taking an integrated approach to investment, covenant and funding in their risk management planning, but there is still a disconnect between schemes’ investment strategy and valuation process, according to research.
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News
Visualise your scheme's demographic shift
Data analysis: Active members have continued to shrink, while deferred member liabilities have continued to rise, presenting a range of investment and governance challenges for UK defined benefit schemes.
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Opinion
Editorial: Towards a consistent variety
At last week’s Society of Pension Consultants dinner, the Pensions Regulator’s outgoing chair Michael O’Higgins – after acknowledging his out-going had been stretched a little longer than expected – gave us a glimpse of the watchdog’s approach to DB regulation.
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News
FDs urged to collaborate with trustees on DB deficits
Finance directors are making a “big mistake” if they think they can get defined benefit liabilities off their balance sheets without collaboration with trustees, a scheme manager told delegates at the 2013 NAPF conference.
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News
MNOPF increases contributions to secure benefits
The Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund has increased employer and member contributions to the new section of its defined benefit scheme to strengthen its ability to pay future benefits.
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Opinion
Is your scheme independence-proof?
A report released last month by the Scottish government outlined how it plans to tackle the structural and legislative hurdles currently blocking Scotland from disentangling its pensions system from the UK.
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News
Why preparation might not be so crucial to buyout
News analysis: Schemes have been urged to get prepared for bulk derisking deals to benefit from affordability improvements, but one provider has said the necessity of preliminary work is often “overemphasised”.
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NewsScottish state pension 'triple whammy' fears
Shadow pensions minister Gregg McClymont has said Scotland’s state pension provision will be hit by a demographic “triple whammy” should the country vote for independence next September.
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Opinion
Editorial: Funding – the poor relation?
Defined benefit schemes across the country breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after the European Commission bowed to increasing pressure and chopped solvency requirements from its upcoming IORP II directive.
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Opinion
Breaking down the regulator's 2013 funding statement
The Pensions Regulator's annual funding statement is aimed at providing guidance for trustees of defined benefit schemes who are going through the valuation process.
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Features
Case study: Great Lakes secures £60m funding deal
After using regulatory pressure and an innovative legal move to clear the path for agreement, Great Lakes UK Pension Plan secured a £60m payment from its sponsor’s parent company.
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FeaturesWhat the regulator's funding statement means for you
Video: The CBI's head of pensions policy, Jim Bligh, tells Owen Walker what the regulator's statement means for schemes in the middle of funding discussions (4:41).
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FeaturesBT changes valuation date to help close deficit
The BT Pension Scheme took advantage of a regulatory flexibility to move its valuation date forward by six months and improve its funding position.
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Features
British Steel launches nursery DC to manage cost
British Steel Pension Scheme will close its defined benefit section and launch a defined contribution arrangement to make the scheme more sustainable and manage the costs associated with auto-enrolment.
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Features
How to control costs through DB scheme mergers
DLA Piper’s Ginevra Gatrell explores the savings available to defined benefit (DB) schemes – and the dangers to be avoided – when their sponsors broach the subject of a merger.