Features Issued in 2004
Pensions for Charities
Issued: 14 December 2004
Though charities face the same mounting pensions expense as any business, they can feel the need to provide for staff in retirement.
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Civil Partnerships
Issued: 25 November 2004
The Civil Partnership Act will cause a stir among schemes, but many may see the changes as plain good manners.
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The Pensions Trust's Allocation Re-Fit
Issued: 23 November 2004
The Pensions Trust has recently overhauled its asset allocation strategy in favour of a "liability-driven" method of money management.
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Pensions - Why Bother?
Issued: 10 November 2004
Once an organisation employs five or more staff, the minimum requirement (with limited exclusions) is to offer the staff access to a stakeholder scheme. This feature looks at alternative pension arrangements.
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Small Scheme of the year awards for SFHA
Issued: 10 November 2004
The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) Pension Scheme scooped the award for Small Scheme of the Year (up to £250m) at this year's Professional Pensions Scheme Awards, and also at the Pensions Management Awards.
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Multi-Employer Schemes - Come together
Issued: 5 November 2004
These schemes give employers the opportunity to group together to offer an occupational pension scheme that as individual employers they could not afford financially or that they would not be prepared to risk offering.
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Pensions Comment - Charity Sector
Issued: 6 October 2004
Against a backdrop of the national pensions crisis, charities are struggling to find the best way to help their employees plan for retirement. This feature looks at the options.
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The Pensions Trust's Liability-Led Investment Structure
Issued: 13 September 2004
The Pensions Trust, the £2.2bn industry-wide scheme for the charitable, voluntary and not-for-profit sector, is to implement a new liability-led investment structure in response to recommendations put forward by the Myners' review.
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The Pensions Trust Embrace Workplace Learning with learndirect
Issued: 1 September 2004
Twenty staff at The Pensions Trust in Edinburgh are taking part in a pilot scheme designed to bring workplace learning to the fore.
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Pensions - Choosing Your Strategy
Issued: 24 August 2004
With crisis after crisis hitting the pensions world, choosing an appropriate strategy could be likened to entering a potential war zone. However, with a little careful thought and consideration you can help your pensions scheme survive.
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Resolving Pensions Issues at the Point of Transfer
Issued: 9 July 2004
In an ideal world, you should have no unresolved pensions issues at the point of transfer.
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Questions and Answers - Stephen Nichols
Issued: 17 June 2004
Stephen 'Bill Clinton' Nichols - deputy chief executive officer of The Pensions Trust - had a schoolboy ambition to be rich and famous until he heard actuaries earned an obscene amount of money.
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All Change for UK Pensions
Issued: 1 June 2004
The Government is making sweeping changes to the law relating to pensions in the UK. The main aims of the changes are to improve the security of pension schemes and to make it easier for people to make their own pension provision.
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Pension Schemes to Meet Part-Timers Needs
Issued: 10 May 2004
Historically, the needs of part-time staff have not been a major factor in pension scheme design. The traditional model of an 80ths or 60ths final salary scheme was aimed firmly at full-time workers who stayed with their employer for many years.
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Helping Those Who Help Others - The Pensions Trust
Issued: 10 May 2004
An introduction to The Pensions Trust, including an insight into the Trust's history, the products and services offered, investment principles and case studies from client's.
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Questions and Answers - Richard Stroud
Issued: 22 January 2004
Classical music buff Richard 'Hairs' Stroud - Chief Executive Officer of The Pensions Trust - talks about his love of real English ale and desire to dine with concert pianist Alfred Brendal.
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Group Personal Pensions
Issued: 8 January 2004
Stephen Nichols explains the major charity management issue of Group Personal Pensions.
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