September 2009 News

PPF reduces levy cap and scaling factor
September 2009
Article by Sophie Baker, Pensions Age, 30 September 2009 The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has announced plans to reduce the cap on its levy to 0.5 per cent, and has reduced the levy scaling factor...

TPR urges employers to increase member help
September 2009
Article by Jenna Towler, Professional Pensions, 17 September 2009 The Pensions Regulator is urging employers that run defined contribution schemes to up their pension interaction with employees ahe...

Start them young
September 2009
Article in DC World, Professional Pensions, 15 September 2009 Each month DC World asks readers for their views. This month we ask: What more can be done to ensure people are aware of their options ...

A trick of the mind - Professional Pensions
September 2009
Article by Sebastian Cheek, Professional Pensions, 5 March 2009. How an understanding of behavioural finance can help to encourage DC members take a more active interest in their pension scheme. Ac...

Pensions lottery could make us all losers in long run
September 2009
Article by Jennifer Hill, The Sunday Times - Money Supplement, 13 September 2009 A former colleague relished telling me last week about two forthcoming new additions to the population. His wife is ...

Barnett Waddingham CFA Exam Success
September 2009
Xia Wang has become the first person at Barnett Waddingham to successfully complete all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program. The Firm was established in 1989 has seen an i...

Barnett Waddingham appointed by Rexel UK
September 2009
Barnett Waddingham, the UK’s leading independent firm of actuaries and consultants, has been appointed by Rexel UK, a leading business-to-business distributor of electrical installation supplies. B...

Young schemes and those with assets just above threshold to benefit from PPF changes
September 2009
Article in Corporate Adviser Magazine, 1 September 2009 Barnett Waddingham is predicting that the pension schemes most likely to benefit from the changes to valuation assumptions announced by the P...

Corporate Adviser - Countdown to 2012 Supplement
September 2009
In September 2009 Corporate Adviser magazine included a Special Supplement - Countdown to 2012, Shaping the deliver of workplace pensions. Clive Grimley was quoted in four of the articles: Commissi...

Commission Challenge
September 2009
Article by James Phillipps in Corporate Adviser, September 2009 The industry will need to come up with new remuneration models post-2012. Although a number of question marks remain over how the ret...

The shape of things to come
September 2009
Article by James Phillipps, Corporate Adviser, September 2009 With lawmakers currently making key decisions on auto-enrolment, personal accounts and the Retail Distribution Review, shaping the regu...

Personal Benchmark
September 2009
Article by John Greenwood, Corporate Adviser, September 2009 Private sector pensions will need to show genuine expertise in the field of investment to differentiate themselves from the passive appr...

Corporate Adviser - Making a difference
September 2009
Differentiating private sector offerings from personal accounts will be crucial in the countdown to 2012. James Phillipps reports For virtually all businesses, the cost implications of auto-enrolme...

Trustees pay for good admin
September 2009
Article by Nick Reeve, Pensions Management, 01 September, 2009 Scheme trustees are still prepared to pay for quality administration services despite the recession, according to PM research. Nuala H...