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Trustee of the Month
Trustee interview: Robin Ellison
A trustee with legal expertise is invaluable when governance issues become complicated. David Blackman meets a doyen of the pensions world who will be appearing at Workplace Pensions Live on 8th and 9th May 2013.
Trustee interview: Alan Pickering
Sign up to Workplace Pensions Live to hear Alan speak and have your say on the debates that matter
Trustee interview: Alan Pickering
Quality trustees have been forced off boards, says Alan Pickering. He tells Sam Brodbeck of the impossible tasks facing today’s politicians
Trustee interview: Aviva's nemesis
Louise Ashford meets Philip Meadowcroft, a man who’s proved that trustees can make a big difference
Trustee interview: Rocking the boat
Andrew Waring has steered his collective naval pension fund through the financial crisis. He is now planning to share his skills with similar schemes, reports Louise Ashford
Case Studies
True to type: Printing Industry Pension Scheme
A scheme that caters for the printing industry stays close to the sector’s small employers, writes Laura MacPhee
Case study: The Daily Mail and General Trust
Sam Brodbeck speaks to the ultimate comms expert - the Daily Mail scheme’s head of pensions communications
Case study: The Merchant Navy Officers' Pension Fund
Louise Ashford finds out how the Merchant Navy Officers’ Pension Fund has steered through choppy waters in recent years
Case study: London Borough of Croydon
Trustee chair of the London Borough of Croydon believes deficit recovery strategies are the most important challenge facing public sector schemes
Blogs
The cost of public sector pensions is still rising
Reforms are not making any savings, says Philip Coggan
Liberating experiences
The pension liberation scandal is an opportunity for trustees to focus on what counts
Trustee Opinion
Blog: “I don’t do good governance very well”, confesses professional trustee
Professional trustee Richard Butcher calls on the pensions industry to adopt governance proposals - for the good of his own pension
AMNT view: Even Barclays can't control its deficit
John Paradise, national committee member, Association of Member-Nominated Trustees calls for accounting change despite smoothing’s demise
Blog: Conversation overheard at a post budget day conference
Pitmans Trustees’ Richard Butcher listens in to a pessimistic and an optimistic trustee discuss the regulator’s new role
Blog: Can you have too much of a good thing?
Pitmans Trustees’ Richard Butcher questions whether smoothing really helps schemes manage their deficits.
2013 off to a flying start
Richard Butcher assesses the smoothing proposal, Office of Fair Trading investigation and TPR code of practise for trust-based DC schemes (phew!)
A software test: We are pixels
Independent trustee Richard Butcher dips into the realms of sci-fi for his latest pensions allegory
Talking Point
Trustee talking point: Should scheme valuation methods be changed?
Engaged Investor talks to trustees about whether the way assets and liabilities are measured should be changed
Trustee talking point: Should schemes be legally required to have member nominated trustees?
Engaged Investor talks to trustees about the role of member nominated trustees
Trustee talking point: How can trustees combat savings inertia in the workplace?
Engaged Investor talks to trustees about savings inertia
