Opinion piece published in Financial Times FTfm supplement, arguing that pension fund trustees need to consider diversified range of investments, not just equities and bonds and that switching from equities to bonds, if funds are in deficit, may be the least efficient way of reducing risk.
Article published in ‘Money is Changing’ Special Report on Financial Services Marketing, published by Dig for Fire. The article examines the need to re-think retirement, reform state pensions and encourage longer working lives, to move pension thinking into the 21st Century.
Article to be published in Pensions World magazine, explaining why women’s pensions need to be reformed urgently and how the system currently discriminates against women.
Letter published in the Financial Times suggesting that there is no intellectual case for compelling employers to contribute to pensions, that this is simply a form of taxation and that pension contributions should really be up to the individual.
Article prepared for Financial Adviser giving Ros’s reaction to the pension reform proposals contained in the Pensions Commission final report.
Article published in Money Management outlining the failure of pension policy reforms and discussing possible reasons why the Treasury seems to have failed to encourage more pension savings.
Article published on BBC website discussing the crisis in UK occupational pension provision, problems faced by employers and members and recommendations for radical reforms.
Article published in Financial Times FTfm November 2005 discussing concerns about a agovernance gap’ in UK occupational pensions, as trustees and the industry seem to be focussing primarily on sorting out problems of defined benefit schemes, while not paying enough attention to the needs of new defined contribution arrangements.
Article published in Daily Mail Monday View column on 3rd October 2005, outlining why women in the UK are treated as second class citizens in pension terms and that urgent radical reform is required to deal with this.
Article published in Financial Adviser explaining the unfairness of women’s pensions and why reform is long overdue.