PAN Governance

Many defined contribution schemes are failing to achieve the most basic governance requirements as the industry focuses on defined benefit issues, independent trustees argue.

Andrew Short gives a run down on what help is out there

The coalition has made positive changes on pensions but has so far failed to enact measures to reinvigorate workplace schemes, a PP panel of experts says.

Trustees should take the opportunity to de-risk schemes as markets look more buoyant, an independent trustee says.

Former Pensions Management Institute vice-president Brian Critchell has joined the board of PAN Governance.

A new model of trusteeship is needed with the role of lay trustees limited in future, delegates at the Pensions Show 2010 heard.

Smaller consultancy firms could win the "battle" for medium-sized schemes in the next five years if consolidation among the top firms continues, Steve Delo says.

The PP Pensions Commission was charged with formulating a range of simple, low-cost policies the new government could look to implement as soon as it came to power in a bid to improve pensions provision.

The launch of an independent commission to tackle the public sector pensions bill has been branded as an "opportunity missed" by members of a PP panel of experts.

Even more industry figures have backed the call for the new coalition government to form a steering group to set out the terms for a permanent pensions commission.