Tag Archives: trustees
Are Trustees bothered- Rosalind Connor says they should be!
Should Trustees be listening to employers from their pensions? Should they be worried about the financial strength of the employers whose workforces they run a pension scheme for? In a fun but sophisticated presentation, Rosalind explained how the law has … Continue reading
The strategic pension consultancy the trustees built
If you are a trustee , you don’t need to look outside the tent to get help with your pension strategy. Independent Governance Group (IGG) has launched its Strategic Pension Solutions Centre of Excellence. It is effectively a resource for … Continue reading
“Sweet Thames flow softly” – a proposal to smooth troubled waters
Like the Thames itself, Thames Water is not going away and the long-running saga between Ofwat, championing the consumer and the Company, struggling to deliver its five year business plan continues to play out- like a railway dispute. Thames’ customers … Continue reading
“Decisive Trustees?” – times certainly are a changing!
I was struck when reading the findings of TPT Retirement Solutions’ trustee survey by two things. Firstly, how different they are from survey findings a year or 19 months ago; secondly how DB “endgame solutions” are extending the duration of … Continue reading
IGG’s blueprint for DB pensions deserves to be well-read
When in 2010 Stephen Ross and Andrew Bradshaw peeled away from HR Trustees and formed Ross Trustees , few gave the new entity much thought. Now the re-badged IGG is a force in the land and with the backing of … Continue reading
Trustees should trust their gut .
If you’ve got a healthy gut, you are probably in a good position to take good decisions. I know nothing about probiotics , don’t take them and can’t comment about the state of my gut. But I’m intrigued by research … Continue reading
BP – please spend your pension fund on pensions
BP is not a poor company. It has a very good pension scheme , with a fund which was created to be paid over time to its staff. Till payments are due, the fund can be invested for the benefit … Continue reading
A pension surplus is of little use to an employer – it should stay that way!
This is how the DWP introduces the question of surplus funding in its consultation on options for defined benefit schemes. Incentives for employers to invest for surplus are currently quite weak. Employers have little to gain from any surplus, … Continue reading
“Helping savers understand their pension choices” My Blueprint for Trustees.
I’m using these cold and wet weekends we’re having, not to sit alone on my boat but to write to Government my thoughts on some of their papers that come out of the Mansion House Reforms. The one I … Continue reading
Pension Professor finds trustee investment in Leveraged LDI “speculation” and “ultra vires”
Philip Bennett, one of Britain’s top pension lawyers , has published a paper prepared for the APL Summer Conference held on 16th June, 2023 Leveraged LDI: Prudent deficit risk management or ultra vires speculation? The paper looks at the underlying … Continue reading