Professional Pensions and Mercer Deskflix Event: Covid-19
Dealing with the impacts. The event examines how the pandemic has amplified some of the challenges DB and DC pension schemes have to overcome, and how you’ll now need to rise to a new set of challenges that, whilst created by Covid-19, are probably here to stay.
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has issued further guidance for employers with pension obligations making use of the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
Covid-19 has presented the ONS with significant problems calculating inflation during lockdown. Latest Institute for Fiscal Studies research examines the challenges faced.
Noel O’Halloran gives an ‘in the trenches’ dispatch from the front line during the Covid-19 crisis.
Every month, several firms issue trackers of the aggregate defined benefit (DB) scheme funding position. See here for the March 2020 estimates on the various measures…
As schemes prepare their long-term funding plans, Marian Elliott explores the key considerations they should focus on.
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published guidance setting out how employers can meet their automatic enrolment (AE) duties as they navigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
Newspaper publisher Reach has requested discussions with the trustees of its pension funds to defer deficit recovery contributions (DRCs) to shore up finances during the coronavirus pandemic.
Debenhams has missed its April deficit recovery contribution (DRC) to its staff pension schemes as the struggling high street retailer files a notice of intent to appoint administrators amid the Covid-19 crisis.
High levels of scheme governance are more pressing than ever during the Covid-19 pandemic. Jonathan Hazlett looks at how trustees can maintain this while working remotely.
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has issued another set of guidance for coping with the Covid-19 pandemic, with trustees urged to act work flexibly with administrators.