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Admin & member experience focus areas for journey planning

11 Dec 2023

Musings

Eight Trustee Chairs came together to exchange views, ideas, concerns and learnings on ensuring the focus on administration and member experience remains front of mind as schemes plan for their journeys. It was an incredibly insightful and lively discussion which explored so many areas of the industry. We’ve put together a synopsis of the key themes emerging from our discussion.

5 benefits of getting to grips with good governance

11 Dec 2023

Musings

Governance isn’t just for trustee boards – it’s the very essence of teamwork, leadership and effectiveness. But when we think of focusing on pension scheme governance, all too often it’s associated with fixing things that have already gone awry. It shouldn’t be like that. Governance is the cornerstone of effectiveness, good decision making and achieving objectives and it is the foundation of delivering good member outcomes

8 things to think about when setting your endgame objective

11 Dec 2023

Musings

Pension risk transfer, endgame, journey plan – a project by any other name would be just as complex! The LDI ‘incident’ left many schemes in a very different funding position, but funding alone isn’t enough to accelerate an insurance transaction. It’s a broad and complicated project that will need trustees, pension scheme managers, advisers, insurers and administrators to work together. Here’s some things to think about when setting your endgame objective.

Thoughts on the Trustee Skills Consultation

6 Oct 2023

Musings

The Pensions Regulator plans to overhaul the trustee toolkit and the accreditation process for professional trustees in a bid to ensure consistent high levels of scheme governance. As part of the Mansion House Reforms in July, The Department for Work and Pensions and HM Treasury issued a call for evidence on improving the skills, capability and culture of Trustee Boards. Here’s some of the key points our response covered

Cyber risk: It’s not ‘if’ it’s ‘when’

6 Oct 2023

Musings

Cyber-attacks have got close to home recently. While attacks were happening to the likes of the NHS and easyJet, the pensions industry had seemed to escape to a large extent. The events at Capita and with Progress Software’s MOVEit file transfer app, changed that. So, what lessons can we learn?

LDI: One Year On

6 Oct 2023

Musings

It feels like time has passed quickly since the gilt market movements a year ago. It has been a bumpy ride for some, a fortunate set of events for others and something in between for the rest. A scheme’s governance standards were key to how well they fared in this period of investment volatility.

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