Life & Pensions

 The Pensions Communications Project

A global project to collect examples of excellent communications between retirement plans and participant employees.  Defined Contribution (DC) pension plan members in the UK have low engagement with their retirement benefits.  To help address this important issue, eight leading UK pensions industry firms, including the National Association of Pension Funds, sponsored a project to learn from examples of pensions workplace communications excellence around the world.

Entering the DCIO market  Building a UK business plan based on lessons from the US

DCIO is the acronym for the ‘investment only’ provision by asset managers of investment products direct to schemes and to platforms and other distributors in the DC market. The market is in its infancy in the UK, but is mature in the US. Lessons can be learned from US precedents. This study pinpoints what the most important lessons might be, and how these can be translated into predictions for the UK, and inputs for business planning for entering this market.

The Five Futures Studies series draws on industry-wide thinking to create five scenarios to describe the range of likely outcomes in each of seven investment related business areas.  Three of these focus on areas of relevance to the Life & Pensions industry.