Southern Pensions Conference, Southampton - 24 November
2011
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pensions - keeping control in challenging
times
Blake Lapthorn and Lane Clark & Peacock LLP hosted a
Southern Pensions conference at Blake Lapthorn's Chandler's Ford
office on 24 November. They looked at the challenges facing
employers, trustees and employees as the pensions landscape
continues to shift.
For those with defined benefit schemes, the conference looked at
how to really understand the liabilities and how these can or might
be better managed.
For those with defined contributions, the conference looked at
adequacy, as well as the potential impact of NEST and
auto-enrolment.
And for both defined benefit and defined contribution schemes, the
conference looked at some of the options available for making the
assets work harder through being smarter.
All of this was considered and debated against the backdrop of
continuing changes to the demographic and legal framework, with the
scrapping of the default retirement age, the challenges of an
ageing workforce and the consequent effect on, and options for,
benefits and flexible retirement.
To view the slides and the programme, please see below.
programme
|
9.00 am |
Registration/coffee |
| 9.30
am |
Introduction/background/scene setting
Adrian Lamb, from Blake Lapthorn's Pensions
team, will:
- describe the current position with employers, particularly
those with legacy issues from defined benefit schemes
- pose some questions arising from the past, the present and the
future including auto enrolment scrapping Default Retirement
Age, value of data audits, adequacy in a DC world, etc
- start to look opportunities to plan and to act now.
|
| 9.45
am |
What really worries me is ...
A typical,
but entirely fictional, conversation between a new member trustee
and the Chairman of the Trustees (who also happens to be the
Finance director of the sponsoring employer).
|
| 10.00
am |
Will I ever know what our liabilities really
are?
Nicola Walker, from Blake Lapthorn's Pensions team, will look
at what you need to do in order to make sure you really know what
your liabilities are, looking at the latest developments on GMP
equalisation, plus some examples of problem areas, eg ineffective
scheme changes, problems with data, etc lessons from the recent
past, including last minute problems, and how to be pro
active.
|
| 10.25
am |
De risking - what could we do tomorrow? What can we do
today?
Richard
Murphy, Lane Clark & Peacock, look at various
liability management and reduction options, including buy ins and
incentive exercises with a particular focus on options available to
schemes of all sizes, recent developments in the past year and what
might be coming.
|
| 10.50
am |
Making your assets work
smarter
Kevin Frisby,
Lane Clark & Peacock, will look ways in which you can make your
assets work harder and how trustees can be smarter about this,
examining the pros and cons of fiduciary management for DB assets
and the most suitable choices for DC investments, including
lifestyling, default options. |
| 11.15 am |
Coffee |
| 11.40
am |
Auto-enrolment and DC
adequacy
Andrew
Cheseldine, Lane Clark & Peacock, will explain what
employers and trustees will need to do to comply, and when this
will apply, and also look at what would an adequate fund look
like? |
| 12.10
pm |
Dealing with older employees - flexible retirement and
effect on other benefits
John Hamilton, from
Blake Lapthorn's Pensions team, will look at
some of the pensions and benefits challenges and issues arising
from having to deal with an older workforce, with the scrapping of
the Default Retirement Age, the impact of age discrimination
legislation, the scope of exemptions for certain insurance
coverage, etc., plus some of the practical issues associated with
flexible retirement. |
| 12.35
pm |
What is the future for
retirement?
Adrian
Lamb, from Blake Lapthorn's Pensions team,
will then look ahead at what might be the pattern of
future working and retirement, taking account of both the immediate
challenges and the longer term impact of demographics, medical
advances, etc. |
| 12.45 pm |
Summing up and panel Q&A |
| 1.00 pm |
Lunch |
location
Blake Lapthorn
New Kings Court
Tollgate
Chandler's Ford
Hampshire
SO53 3LG
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date
Thursday 24 November 2011
time
9.30 am - 1 pm followed by lunch
contact
If you would like further information please email events@bllaw.co.uk.
