Senior policy advisor at @ThePLSA. Former editor at Pensions Expert at the FT. Crazy cat lady in my spare time. Proud Portuguese. Views are my own.
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On the go: The British Steel Pension Scheme has signed a £2bn buy-in with Legal & General, bringing the total liabilities insured to around 60 per cent.
More than 70 000 staff at 150 universities will strike on February 1 in a dispute that includes disagreement over the 2020 valuation of the Universities Superannuation Scheme
Liability-driven investment funds sold £23bn of gilts in three weeks during the market turmoil in 2022, with pooled funds being forced sellers, Andrew Bailey has revealed.
The Pensions Regulator will not be collecting data on fiduciary management and investment consultants from defined benefit schemes as part of its 2023 scheme return, which can present a “gap in compliance”, experts have warned.
The Pensions Regulator estimates that the defined benefit funding code could have a cost for employers of up to £34bn, which has prompted LCP to call on the government to give more time to sponsors to adjust to the new regime.
The fallout from the September market turmoil will be “wide-ranging” for UK defined benefit schemes, with regulatory changes influencing their capacity to invest in less-liquid growth strategies, according to a new report from Bloomberg Intelligence.
The Department for Work and Pensions has narrowed down the solution to the small pots issue to either the creation of default consolidators or the introduction of pot follows member legislation
On the go: The Department for Work and Pensions is exploring whether it could introduce legislation for decumulation-only collective defined contribution schemes, since these could help “improve member choice and outcomes”.
On the go: Dashboard projected assumptions, which came into force last year, will remain unaltered until March 2024, the Financial Reporting Council has announced.
A committee in the House of Lords has called for “far stricter limits” on leverage in liability-driven investments, which it believes caused the Bank of England intervention, while considering giving the Prudential Regulation Authority a role in schemes’ supervision, due to their “bank-like” strategies.
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