Tiscali – Top tips for pension planning
Ros wrote a comment for the Tiscali website covering her eight Essential Pension Tips – trying to help people understand some of the important issues involved in planning for pensions.
Press Release for MetLife Retirement Planning Reform Report
Press Release announcing the publication of Ros’ independent report examining the issues facing ordinary people trying to plan their retirement. Ros explains the huge risks and uncertainties they face and how the credit crisis has worsened the pension outcomes for millions of pensioners.
IEA conference: The future of the 'post-retirement' market
Presentation given at the IEA 12th Annual conference on the Future of Life Assurance, outlining Ros’ views on the future of the ‘post-retirement’ market.
Planning for Retirement – You're on your own
Ros was commissioned to write an independent report on the problems facing individuals who are trying to plan for their retirement. She covers the history of our pension system, the risks of relying too heavily on the stock market to deliver good pensions and discusses some of the misconceptions of pension planning. Do you know the difference between a pension fund and a pension? Do you know what options are available on retirement? Can you afford to gamble your future security? All these questions are touched on in the report. Copies of the report are available at www.metlife.com/rp
UK budget pension measures
Ros gives an overview of the measures announced in the Spring 2009 UK Budget, as they relate to pensions.
Pensions Regulator encourages trustees not to be a soft touch
Ros discusses the latest release from the UK Pensions Regulator, urging trustees to be robust in negotiating with employers about achieving better security for pension funding – this is a difficult balancing act but it is important to try to get it right.
Citiwire blog: Budget pensions policy wishlist
Blog on Citiwire website outlinining Ros’s wish list for policies that the Chancellor could introduce to help pensions and pensioners in the forthcoming Budget.
Guardian comment: Employers cut pension contributions – dangers for retirement
Guardian on-line Comment column in which Ros explains the dangers of a major pension company cutting its pension contributions in response to the credit crisis and cost cutting pressure. This will mean disappearing employer pensions and then disappearing retirement.
Yorkshire Post op-ed: Pensions – we all face a poorer future
Op-ed published in Yorkshire Post explaining the dangers of employers cutting pension contributions and the Government’s personal accounts encouraging further cutbacks in future. This is a pay cut today, will be a pension cut tomorrow and will mean delayed retirement or pensioner poverty in future.
Employers pulling out of pensions – with Government blessing
Press Release expressing concern that a major UK pensions advisory company is halving its contributions to its money purchase pension scheme and leading the way for other employers to follow. This risks pensioner poverty and worsens our pensions crisis.