About Benefits Services

Benefits Services offers a range of services to help assist companies, their officers and pension scheme trustees.

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European Commission to unveil White Paper on pensions next week

After several delays, Commission to publish much-anticipated paper on Valentine's Day.
Mandate roundup: Barking & Dagenham, PPF, Devon, Aviva, Cheshire

London Borough of Barking & Dagenham Pension Fund looks to invest in infrastructure.
Deficit at BT pension scheme increases by one-third in Q3

Scheme hit by combination of low corporate bond yields, above-expectation inflation.
National Association of Pension Funds blasts 'toxic' annuity market

Pension funds should have in-built, open-market option, allowing members to "shop around".
Irish asset management agency considers launch of QIFs to offload assets

NAMA looks to increase sales as it targets €7.5bn debt payment by end of 2013.
Investor beware: The trouble with due diligence

ABP's lawsuit against Goldman Sachs highlights a number of unresolved questions over due diligence.
Ryanair threatens Aer Lingus with court over pension contributions

Says pension contributions must not increase without shareholder approval.
Friday people roundup

PGGM, AXA IM, Lyxor, State Street, Barnett Waddingham, Vanguard, Stenham, F&C, Ingram Micro
Supply-demand imbalance to weigh on US yields, says BlackRock's Rieder

Asset manager's CIO expects five-year Treasury yields to remain below 1% for "a very long time".
Spanish pension funds rebound in Q4, but returns still sluggish for 2011

Schemes lose 0.76% in 2011, compared with Q3 loss of 3.1%, according to INVERCO.

These services include assisting significant employers and pension scheme trustees in optimising relationships with their existing advisers, the structured and regular monitoring of pension or benefits scheme activity in order to lead to better corporate and pension scheme governance and financial management and to provide companies and pension scheme trustees with the comfort and security of knowing they have experienced pensions professionals as a committed and integral part of their team.

These core services are augmented by advice on the selection of independent trustees, specific problem resolution, counselling on the selection of new advisers, advice pertaining to the administration of benefits and the provision of total remuneration statements, cost savings communication.