DB schemes

Nick Agius, Director at Cardano Advisory comments on the latest UK company insolvency statistics.

Cardano, the investment management and advisory business, reveals in a new report – New world, new decisions – that a majority (70%) of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are uncertain about the ultimate objective of their Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes.

Cardano, the pension advisory and investment management specialist, has urged Government to start funding public sector pension funds or the State pension to support its economic growth ambitions. In its response to the Department of Work & Pensions consultation, Options for Defined Benefit schemes: a call for evidence, Cardano argues that examples of successful investment […]

In our latest perspective piece, Michael McElligott and Hamish Reeves discuss the need for contingency planning and scenario testing as M&A starts to increase.

In this series of our bite-size videos, we consider how pension schemes and their stakeholders have been impacted by the rapid improvements in scheme funding resulting from the recent rise in gilt yields.

Is our employer covenant robust and sustainable enough? That’s a question trustees of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes in Ireland should be asking on a regular basis. While this question is always relevant to DB pension schemes, recent regulatory changes have guided trustees to look at it more closely going forward. Michael McElligott, Director, shares his thoughts.