Trustee Consulting Articles

Adrian Waddingham comments on David Pitt-Watson’s suggestion today that compulsory workplace pensions schemes might burden their members.
October 2011
“This fear is exaggerated. First, many pensioners now enjoying good company pensions might not have be doing so had their employers not made pension plan membership a condition of employment. Sadly th...

Dorchester Collection selects Barnett Waddingham and Davidson Asset Management for full Pension Servicing for UK Hotels
October 2011
The Dorchester has appointed Barnett Waddingham, the UK’s largest independent firm of actuaries and consultants, to advise the trustees of the UK hotels’ retirement benefits scheme, through providing ...

Malcolm McLean Comments on the Office for National Statistics latest Pension Trends Report
June 2011
Commenting on the Office for National Statistics (ONS) latest Pension Trends Report, Barnett Waddingham Consultant, Malcolm McLean said: "The growing lack of pension saving particularly amongst low ea...

Should cash offers to leave pension schemes be banned?
June 2011
The Pensions Minister, Steve Webb, is considering stopping employers from offering cash lump sums to their workers as an incentive to transfer out of their salary-related pension schemes. Malcolm McLe...

PPF’s Confirmation of New Levy Framework
May 2011
Commenting on the PPF’s confirmation of new levy framework, announced today, Nick Griggs , Partner at Barnett Waddingham, said: “It is pleasing that the PPF has continued to listen to comments from in...

Barnett Waddingham announces Hot Topics seminars
May 2011
Barnett Waddingham, the UK’s leading independent firm of actuaries, administrators and consultants, has announced a series of free nationwide seminars during May which will focus on the “ Test Achats ...

Danny Wilding considers the implications of the ECJ ruling for occupational pension schemes
March 2011
Speaking on the implications of the ECJ ruling for occupational pension schemes, Danny Wilding , partner, at actuaries Barnett Waddingham says trustees need to be mindful of how they need to react: “W...

PPF’s announcement of changes to Valuation Assumptions
February 2011
Commenting on the PPF’s announcements of changes to Valuation Assumptions, Ben Roach , Associate at Barnett Waddingham, said: “The PPF is not proposing any radical changes to the assumptions used for ...

Trustee Meeting Handbook version II
February 2011
The latest version of Barnett Waddingham’s Trustee Meeting Handbook is now available. The handbook is intended to be a reference guide for trustees to use at trustee meetings to help their governance ...

Barnett Waddingham comments on HMRC pensions 'bungle'
January 2011
Commenting on today's reports that HMRC has not credited over two million people with £1.2bn in NI contributions, Malcolm McLean , Consultant, Barnett Waddingham, comments: “This is scandalous if true...