Case studies: fleet street has given pensions boardroom notoriety, now could be your chance to help steer bosses towards total reward. (Industry Overview) Sarah Ball.

Employee Benefits, Nov 2002 pS13(2)
Case studies: fleet street has given pensions boardroom notoriety, now could be your chance to help steer bosses towards total reward. (Industry Overview) Sarah Ball.
Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2002 Centaur Publishing Ltd.


The national headlines say that pensions are in crisis, but in every crisis lies an opportunity. And benefits managers are in the perfect position to rethink pensions in the context of total reward, and to see what opportunities there are for the benefits they invest in.


At the October launch of the National Association of Pension Funds' (NAPF) report Pensions--Plain and Simple, chairman Peter Thompson said: "Employers should make an informed choice over changes to pension provision."


He appeals to employers set on closing their final salary defined benefit schemes (DB) to consider alternative design options to defined contribution (DC) plans, such as DB/DC hybrid schemes and DB schemes based on career average reval...