For much of the twentieth century, private or workplace pensions meant defined benefit.
Author: David Fairs
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.
Continue readingProtecting DB savers: our expectations are clear
Making workplace pensions work is at the heart of what we do, but it’s also the job of those who fund and manage pension schemes.
Continue readingDC growth indicates automatic enrolment is starting to mature
Some things are foreseeable. As automatic enrolment has created hundreds of thousands of new pension memberships, so the defined contribution (DC) market was inevitably going to grow.
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