How much progress have schemes made with implementing ESG factors within their investments over the last two years? Jennifer Michel talks to Jennifer O’Neill, Partner at Aon, to find out the key insights from Aon’s Global Pension Risk Survey and understand how schemes can best face ESG risks within their investment strategies. The data and analytics from our recent survey are now available https://www.aon.com/gprs2023 We would be happy to talk to you about the findings, and to put them into context for your own pension scheme. We can also help you to understand where you need to take action to ..read more

April 2024 – Professional Trusteeship In this podcast, you will hear the key pension news from the last month summarised by Aon’s Jennifer Michel and John Harney. This month Jennifer and John are joined by Natalie Winterfrost from Law Debenture and Colin Richardson of Zedra to discuss the advantages and challenges of professional trusteeship, including sole trusteeship, as well as the future of this space. Further information: Email us your topic suggestions, comments and questions to TalkToUs@aon.com ..read more

How much progress have schemes made with GMP equalisation projects over the last two years? John Harney talks to Lauren Ramsey, Associate Partner at Aon, to find out the key insights from Aon’s Global Pension Risk Survey and understand how schemes can best navigate the challenges that can arise when completing GMP equalisation. The data and analytics from our recent survey are now available here. We would be happy to talk to you about the findings, and to put them into context for your own pension scheme. We can also help you to understand where you need to take action to ensure your scheme ac ..read more

March 2024 – The Revised PLSA Retirement Living Standards In this podcast, you will hear the key pension news from the last month summarised by Aon’s Jennifer Michel and John Harney. This month Jennifer and John are joined by Chloe Ludden to discuss the recent increase in the PLSA Retirement Living Standards and examples of what schemes are doing to help members with retirement adequacy. Further information: Read the PLSA Retirement Living Standards: [https://www.retirementlivingstandards.org.uk/] Read the Pensions Policy Institute’s Paper: The Underpensioned: Defining the Gender Pension Gap ..read more

Member Options and Support What are the latest trends in member options and member support? John Harney talks to Polly Cripps, Associate Partner at Aon, to find out the key insights from Aon’s Global Pension Risk Survey and understand practical steps trustees and sponsors of pension schemes can take to enhance the experience and outcomes for their members. The data and analytics from our recent survey are now available here - https://www.aon.com/gprs2023 We would be happy to talk to you about the findings, and to put them into context for your own pension scheme. We can also help you to unders ..read more

February 2024 – Pensions risk settlement: reflecting on a record-breaking 2023 In this podcast you will hear the key pension news from the last two months summarised by Aon’s Jennifer Michel and John Harney. This month Jennifer and John are joined by Hatty Goodwin and Leah Evans to discuss the innovations and developments in 2023 in the DB pension risk settlement market, including exclusivity, investment and how things can vary depending on your scheme’s size. Further information: Read Aon’s Risk Settlement bulletin for Q4 2023: [https://www.aon.com/getmedia/a99fe231-a4a5-4a11-9c76-9daf47654cc ..read more

I’ve had sign-off on the Investment podcast – can you please publish this with the notes: How have UK pension schemes been impacted by rising interest rates and the subsequent impact on funding levels and deficits? Hear key insights from Aon’s Global Pension Risk Survey to how UK schemes are reacting to this from Rupert Kotowski, an Associate Partner in Aon’s investment practice. Rupert also discusses the changes schemes are making to investment strategies and how many are dealing with ESG risk. The data and analytics from our recent survey are now available here. We would be happy to talk to ..read more

Long term targets In this podcast in our series on the Global Pension Risk Survey - UK results, Jennifer Michel speaks to Alastair McIntosh, partner and co-author of the survey, about the long-term targets of pension schemes. What are schemes aiming for as their long-term target and how do they expect to reach their goals? The data and analytics from our recent survey are now available here. We would be happy to talk to you about the findings, and to put them into context for your own pension scheme. We can also help you to understand where you need to take action to ensure your scheme achieve ..read more

Highlights from the Global Pension Risk Survey – UK results. In this podcast in our series on the Global Pension Risk Survey - UK results, Jennifer Michel speaks to Aon's Head of UK retirement policy, Matthew Arends, and partner and co-author on the Global Pension Risk Survey, Alastair McIntosh about the highlights of the survey. The main theme since the last survey took place two years ago is that respondents are addressing pensions risks across a multitude of different topics, covering liability risks, investment risks and a range of governance and operational risks. Find out what the top pr ..read more

December 2023 – Focusing on DC and DB investment In this podcast you will hear the key pension news from the last month summarised by Aon’s Ricky Marsh. This month Ricky is joined by Steven Leigh and Rupert Kotowski to discuss the investment aspects of Aon’s latest data and analytics, including results from the DC Today pulse surveys and the Global Pension Risk Survey for DB schemes. Further information: Watch the recording of Aon’s Autumn Statement webinar: [https://www.aon.com/unitedkingdom/retirement-investment/defined-benefit-pensions/webinar-autumn-statement-2023] Register for Aon’s 2024 ..read more