market-leading pensions advice and award-winning governance solutions
market-leading pensions advice and award-winning governance solutions
Actuarial advice
We provide comprehensive and truly independent actuarial advice to help companies manage their defined benefit liabilities successfully
DB governance
Our award-winning governance offering can help you make small adjustments to your DB governance or provide a root and branch review
DC governance
Our DC governance solutions are suitable for large and smaller arrangements, with the latter under increasing scrutiny from TPR
Web services
We have a wide range of technology solutions that can be tailored to your specific needs
Operational support
We provide additional resource or dedicated project management for specialist or one-off projects
Recent publications
24 January 2020
In the news this week, the ACA calls for AE contribution increases plus tax and pension simplification, MaPS launches its 10 year financial wellbeing strategy and the AA consults on stopping future DB accrual.
Pensions Arena January 2020
2019 marked 50 years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and this was obviously on the Queen’s mind in her Christmas message as she talked about a bumpy year but one with small steps of progress as well. In terms of pensions, it also felt like a year of small steps and occasional bumps. In this quarter’s Arena, we take a positive look back at 2019, as well as looking forward to some expected pension developments over 2020.
Pensions Arena October 2019
Despite the very different circumstances facing individual companies, bac‘s autumn 2019 survey reveals a surprisingly consistent picture of the actions which companies are finding most attractive to manage their DB and DC pension arrangements.
DB Governance Case Studies
As DB liabilities have become legacy issues to be managed, governance has become the umbrella term for a broad range of risk management tools. In this publication, we look at the DB governance solutions we have helped our clients to implement.
A match made in heaven?
As pension trustees and sponsors get serious about good governance, a key question is whether technology can play a meaningful role or is simply an expensive addition that looks good but adds little value?
Advisers: Endgame
In this Pensions Perspective, Andrew Udale-Smith looks first at the different types of adviser review and when and how they might best be used. Then he focuses on how to design a smooth and efficient process for a full market tender.