Index of News Items
COPAS' Paper on Member Nominated Trustees
The
Economics of an Ageing Population
The
House of Lords has started an enquiry into this matter. Both COPAS (on
1 March 2003) (click here)
and the Association of Royal Ordnance Pensioners (on 27 February 2003)
(click here)
have responded to the questions posed.
Consultation Events on 12 and 24 March 2003 have been attended and reported by the COPAS Chairman. (to see click here)
SELECT
COMMITTEE LAUNCHES YET ANOTHER INQUIRY INTO THE FUTURE OF UK PENSIONS
Prompted
by the growing public concern about the issue of pensions, and in the
light of the recent Sandler and Pickering Reviews, the House of Commons
Select Committee on Work and Pensions has launched a wide-ranging inquiry
to examine the role and policy of the Department for Work and Pensions
(DWP) in encouraging increased saving for retirement.
Click to see:
1)
Press Notice of July 2002
calling
for responses
2) Responses
published on 5/12/02 as Volume lll, in the form of memoranda.
COPAS' submission, dated 25/9/02, being numbered PEN08
3)
Green Paper of 12th Dec. 2002
calling for further responses
4) The COPAS 1st response of 1/2/2003
COPAS' initial response
5) The COPAS 2nd Response of 25/3/2003
COPAS' next response
- The COPAS'Council's 12 page submission to the Select Committee (see below) can be downloaded by clicking here (Word97 format, 92 KB)
- The COPAS submission (see below) in the Quinquennial review of OPRA can be viewed by clicking here
- The Future of Pensions by Ron Brociner (April, 2002)
- Member Nominated Trustees by Roy Causton (February, 2002)
- The Universal Protected Pension - Modernising Pensions for the Millenium by Frank Field, MP
- Pensioners' Associations, the
trustees and the Data Protection Act
THE
OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS REGULATORY AUTHORITY (OPRA) UNDERGOES A
QUINQUENNIAL REVIEW
yhere
Because the review is independent, OPRA, the subject of the review,
can submit to the reviewers, as well as relaying other submissions.
You can read their input here,
and can form your own opinion about any COPAS influence. We will provide
a link to the output of the review, when that is available.
OTHER SOURCES OF NEWS & INFORMATION
Occupational
Pensions Eclipse Group Ltd. Subscriptions to Sue Jackson
020 7354 6742 £190 per year Excellent monthly magazine which includes
legal updates. No advertising content.
Pensions
Week Financial Times Business Subscriptions; 020 8606
7545 £125 per year £225 two year Weekly magazine which is useful for
keeping right up to date. Happy to publish the views of pensioner associations
if you contact them.
Pensions World Tolley Subscriptions; 020 8686 9141 £84 per year Monthly magazine which appears to have connections with the National Association of Pension Funds.Interesting articles including a political update by Sue Ward. Advertising content.
Pensions Management Financial Times Business Subscriptions; 020 8606 7545 £89 per year Monthly magazine supposedly for pension professionals.Tends to present the industry view. Statistics on personal pensions funds. Advertising content.