2010 – what’s in store for pensions?
Personal accounts are expected to dominate the legislative and regulatory agenda in 2010. However, legal change is also anticipated in other areas. This is a brief overview of what 2010 promises
Issue: January 2010 Author: Jill Clucas

Dynamic risk management – is this a contradiction in terms?
Pension fund risk management continues to evolve Dynamic, ‘intelligent’ approaches to risk management can exploit market conditions to reduce costs and improve funding levels Pooled fund structures
Issue: January 2010 Author: Steve Aukett

Investment Insight – Fiduciary Management
Trustees have a lot on their plate. Considering just the investment side, trustees must set a funding objective, determine the investment strategy to achieve the objective, implement the strategy,
Issue: January 2010 Author: Colin English

Employer promotion of pension schemes – what trustees can do
Primary responsibility for the promotion of a pension scheme rests with the employer Trustees do have a role to play in ensuring members and potential members understand the benefits of scheme
Issue: January 2010 Author: Esther White

Ask the Expert – Accounting
“Internal audit reviews of our scheme are currently completed by our employer’s team. How can we maximise the benefit we derive from this internal audit and what more should we be doing to improve
Issue: January 2010 Author: Sarah Mason

Investing time in investment knowledge
We recognise the importance of investment decisions and that the investment landscape is becoming more complex. As a result, investment decisions are becoming more complicated and are therefore
Issue: January 2010 Author: Terry Clayworth

A new quality standard for DC workplace pensions
The PQM is an initiative to promote good quality DC workplace pension schemes The Quality Mark is awarded to schemes that meet standards on contribution levels, scheme governance, and member
Issue: January 2010 Author: Richard Wilson

Managing scheme risk through better governance
Over the past 12 months we have been engaged in a series of campaigns focused on providing greater practical support for trustees, employers and advisers in dealing with the existing risks facing
Issue: January 2010 Author: Tony Hobman

PMI Trustee Support: DB Pension schemes – making ends meet
Trustees face two enormous challenges as we enter the new decade. Firstly, how to ensure their investment performance delivers the funds needed to match the scheme’s liabilities and, secondly, how
Issue: January 2010 Author: Margaret Snowdon

Actuarial and Investment Matters
Recent Watson Wyatt research suggests that half the defined benefit (DB) schemes in the UK will close to future accrual in the next three years. This is estimated to impact around a million
Issue: January 2010 Author: Saq Hussain

Legal Update
The Pensions Regulator is urging trustees of defined contribution (DC) schemes to review the pre-retirement literature sent to members. The regulator has reviewed communications from 97 trust-based
Issue: January 2010 Author: Helen Hanbidge

Consultancy and Administration Issues
It is now 2010 and almost four years since A Day when a new system of benefit allowances and authorised payments for taxation purposes came into effect for pension schemes.
Issue: January 2010 Author: Rosie Kwok