Climate change will challenge every area of our lives, including our retirements. The pension industry’s response to that challenge will determine its future prosperity.
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Author: David Fairs
Fast Track or Bespoke? The future of DB valuations
On 2 September, our first consultation on defined benefit (DB) funding is closing. We want your input to help shape the foundations of how we regulate DB schemes for many years to come.
Continue readingPaying benefits is not just admin
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how pivotal good administration is to ensuring benefits get paid in a crisis. Continue reading
Why intelligence is key to combating COVID
David Fairs, Executive Director of Regulatory Policy, Analysis and Advice, takes a closer look at some of our key COVID-19 updates. Continue reading
DB funding code: It’s a matter of principle
Over the last few weeks, calls have been made for us to rethink or abandon the first consultation on our draft DB funding code. Continue reading
COVID-19 has changed the world, not our focus on protecting savers
In my last blog, I said the world had changed with a move away from defined benefit (DB) pensions.
A maturing and innovating landscape for defined benefit pensions
For much of the twentieth century, private or workplace pensions meant defined benefit.
Breaking down barriers to create diverse boards of trustees
In our Governance and Trusteeship consultation, we asked how we could help trustees improve the diversity of trustee boards, something we believe is crucial.
Intergenerational fairness
As Michael Johnson recently outlined in his letter to the Select Committee on Intergenerational Fairness and Provision, Generation Y (aka millennials) could be the first generation to experience a lesser quality of life than their baby boomer parents.
Continue readingWhy we’re pushing pension schemes out of the market
We want to accelerate the consolidation of pension schemes. Why? Because many smaller schemes are simply not good enough.
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