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Risk For Pension Fund Providers
For any company considering whether to offer or continue to offer a traditional defined benefit DB pension scheme, the fundamental issue is whether the benefit of doing so justifies the cost. The rationale is clear: in providing a desirable benefit for employees, the company hopes to attract and then retain...
Tags: Benefits, Investment, payroll solutions, State Street Corp., imbalance, pension fund, essay, equity, risk, bond, financing, benefit
White papers 2003-10-01
PPF Impact on Scheme Investment
The Pension Protection Fund PPF seeks to provide increased protection for members should the sponsoring employer become insolvent and the scheme have insufficient assets to meet its liabilities. This provides pension scheme trustees with the freedom to invest more aggressively; however, the paper argues that this is inappropriate and, additionally,...
Tags: Aon Corp., asset
White papers 2005-04-01
Findings of UK Pension Scheme Governance Survey
This paper depicts about a survey that provides a picture of the current status of pension scheme governance. It is unique in being the first survey to provide an objective view of the internal workings of large UK pension schemes. This survey represents the ongoing commitment to the pensions industry...
Tags: Marketing research, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, survey, U.K., industry
White papers 2004-03-01
Security of Pension Scheme Benefits - Responsibilities of Trustees
The paper depicts that the Pensions Regulator has now started to issue guidance on those requirements of the Pensions Act 2004 which relate to the security of members' benefits. The Pensions Act introduced powers for the Regulator to require companies other than the sponsoring employer or even individuals to contribute...
Tags: Benefits, Corporate law, Aon Corp., corporate restructuring, benefit, security
White papers 2005-06-01
End of year tax planning
The author of this artice says that it is also possible to make personal pension contributions based on your highest earnings in any of the last five tax years - called your 'base year.' for tax purposes. This applies both to the employed and self-employed. It also explains about facts...
Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Benefits, payroll solutions, tax, pension, benefit
White papers 2003-09-15
The Stakeholder Pension Lottery: An Analysis of the Default Funds in UK Stakeholder Pension Schemes
The paper analyzes the range of default funds offered by UK stakeholder pension schemes, against the background of research that shows the majority of pension scheme members passively accept the default arrangements offered by the scheme sponsor. It finds the default funds vary substantially in their strategic asset allocation and...
Tags: Asset management, City University, asset allocation, asset, benefit, analysis
White papers 2005-02-01
The Future of Pension Plan Design
In the thirty years since the introduction of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, tremendous changes have taken place in the US private pension environment. As the change matures, it is becoming clear that the problem of optimal pension scheme design has not been solved. On the contrary, much work...
Tags: payroll solutions, University of Pennsylvania, ERISA, pension plan, environment
White papers 2004-11-19
Pension Deficit or Corporate Debt - How Should a Company Choose?
Traditionally, finance directors have aimed to minimise pension scheme contributions by encouraging the use of optimistic investment return assumptions and spreading any cash commitment over the longest credible period. Trustees would set out to get as much money in the fund as quickly as possible. Generally, a compromise would be...
Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Mercer, pension, environment
White papers 2005-05-11
Barriers to Pension Scheme Participation in Small - and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Large sections of the UK population are failing to make adequate provision for their retirement, and one area where provision is notably poor is among people working for small- and medium-sized businesses SMEs. This paper is based on information gathered from interviews with individuals from a wide range of organizations...
Tags: payroll solutions, Benefits, pension, barrier, small and medium enterprise
White papers 2004-10-18
Alternatives to Direct Funding
Deciding on the appropriate mechanism for providing security to pension scheme members is an important issue for scheme sponsors. It is likely to become even more important as schemes mature and greater attention is paid to more volatile funding measures such as FRS 17 and IAS 19. The need for...
Tags: Watson Wyatt Worldwide, security
White papers 2004-10-01
Employee Saving and Investment Decisions in Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Survey Evidence From the UK
In recent years there has been a significant shift in retirement income provision in the UK from the situation where employers offer defined benefit pensions, to one where defined contribution schemes are more common. This paper uses data from a survey of the members of a mid-sized UK DC pension...
Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, City University, pension plan, U.K., survey, knowledge, benefit
White papers 2004-09-01
Socially Responsible Investment by Trustees of Charities and Occupational Pension Funds (SRI)
This paper initially explores the rationale and growth of corporate social responsibility by companies. The paper then charts the development and legislative background to the regulations to the Pensions Act 1995 and the forthcoming Charities Act 2005, which for the first time obliges charities and pension scheme trustees to state...
Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, City University, pension fund, Corporate Social Responsibility, strategy, performance
White papers 2005-01-01
Defined Benefit Pensions: The Employer View
This paper reveals how soaring Defined Benefit DB pension scheme costs are inhibiting many companies' ability to operate, compete and ultimately survive. While previous research has focused on the costs of providing DB plans, this report shows the extent to which pension costs are influencing a company's fundamental, day-to-day operations....
Tags: Aon Corp., survey
White papers 2006-06-01
Optimal Investment Strategies and Risk Measures in Defined Contribution Pension Schemes
This paper analyzes the investment allocation and the downside risk faced by the retiring member of a defined contribution pension scheme, where optimal investment strategies derived from a dynamic programming approach have been adopted. The behavior of the optimal investment strategy is analyzed when changing the disutility function and the...
Tags: Investment, City University, investment strategy, Value at Risk, asset, programming
White papers 2002-02-01
The Role of High Yield Corporate Debt in Pension Schemes
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role that high yield corporate debt may play in pension scheme investment. After describing the origins of the high yield corporate debt market, the paper compares the investment characteristics of high yield corporate debt with both equities and investment grade bonds....
Tags: Investment, bond, equity
White papers 2002-05-07
Simplifying the Taxation of Pensions: Increasing Choice and Flexibility for All
This paper proposes radical simplification of pensions taxation. The complexity of the tax rules for pensions has come about because each successive set of changes has overlaid the previous rules, which have been allowed to continue for people who stay in the same pension scheme. These rules restrict choice and...
Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, pension, workplace, tax, income
White papers 2002-12-01
Do Benefits Packages Score With Staff?
A survey reveals that organisations have not got to grips with how best to motivate and retain staff using benefits packages despite clear evidence that they can work wonders with morale. Private health insurance, share options, company car, pension scheme, gym membership - there is little doubt that what employers...
Tags: Job, Reed Elsevier Inc., Survey, Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, Healthcare, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2004-03-23
The Shrinking Pensions Exemption
This article examines the way in which the pensions exemption has been eroded and it's more limited application in the future. Historically, it has been widely assumed that all the rights and liabilities under a seller's occupational pension scheme would not transfer to a buyer under the Transfer of Undertakings...
Tags: Pensions Exemption, Benefits, Human Resources
White papers 2005-01-04
Trinity Mirror Says Trading Within Debt Covenants
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Media group Trinity Mirror TNI said on Wednesday it was trading comfortably within the covenants for its debt facilities after shares in the struggling newspaper publisher tumbled on market concerns. Trinity, which warned on profits two weeks ago due to a ...
Tags: Covenant, Trinity Mirror, Kaupthing, Financial Services, Oukbs
News items 2008-07-16
Managing The Management
The deal had a purchase price of £620 million and was the largest management buy-out in 1997 – over 10 territories were involved. Our clients were backing the management buy-out of the business and needed some specialist pensions advice. PWC were asked to provide pensions advice on the sale and...
Tags: agreement
Case studies 2002-02-15
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