“There is a war on, you know?”
Hamish Wilson (with the assistance of the Walmington-on-Sea, Dad’s Army platoon) looks at recent risk sharing proposals. He suggests there is an urgency for these to be taken up and evolved more
Issue: May 2009 Author: Hamish Wilson FIA

Setting up a website for pension scheme members
Effective communication can be delivered online as well as on paper or face to face The value of online communication is in its flexibility AND depth Building a website has some simple rules You are
Issue: May 2009 Author: Alex Thurley-Ratcliff

A matter of life and death?
Martin Bird from Hewitt Associates’ Longevity Solutions Group examines the key issues facing pension schemes as members continue to live longer, in particular: Recent trends of increasing life
Issue: May 2009 Author: Martin Bird

Time for a good deed?
Consolidating and updating occupational pension scheme deeds and rules is a task that is often postponed - repeatedly This can lead to poor risk management and unexpected unfunded liabilities An
Issue: May 2009 Author: Colin Browning APMI

The importance of an in-house pensions administration health check
Carrying out regular reviews of the administration function has always been vital for third party organisations. James Lavender, a consultant with Capita Hartshead, looks at why this is equally
Issue: May 2009 Author: James Lavender

How to get headhunted and the process which follows
Recent media coverage has been painting a very negative picture of the UK economy and if we believe everything we hear then the worst recession since the great depression of the 1920s is upon
Issue: May 2009 Author: Paul Battye

Auto enrolment and the Pensions Regulator’s role – as easy as possible
The Pensions Regulator has been tasked with building the Employer Compliance Regime for the Government’s 2012 pension reforms, and our aim is to maximise levels of compliance with the new employer
Issue: May 2009 Author: Graham Brammer

Actuarial and Investment Matters
The Pensions Bill recently completed its journey through Parliament. It is this piece of legislation that will impose a duty on all employers to auto-enrol almost all employees into a pension
Issue: May 2009 Author: Saq Hussain

Legal Update
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finalised a set of miscellaneous amendments (the Occupational, Personal and Stakeholder Pensions [Miscellaneous Amendments] Regulations 2009). These
Issue: May 2009 Author: Nicola Bumpus

Consultancy and Administration Issues
This consultation document from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) contains a review of the existing legislative requirements relating to the disclosure of information requirements applying
Issue: May 2009 Author: Peter Scott