Previous OPA Meetings
Regional Meetings: Regional meetings are open to all pensioners - membership of an OPA association is not required to attend.
London & South Eastern Region:
22 July '10: Richard Butcher from Pitman Trustees on the new Association of Nominated Trustees & Directors
18th February '10: Richard Williams, Head of Parliamentary and Stakeholder Affairs and Paul Reynolds, Director of Corporate Affairs, from the Pensions Protection Fund. Slides are available here.
2009
29th October: Fiona Frobisher, Head of Regulatory Policy at The Pensions Regulator. Slides are available here (3Mb)
16th July: Alan Pickering, CBE on "The Role of the Independent Trustee".
10th February: Catherine Howarth, CEO of FairPensions
2008
23 October: Adrian Bourne and Hugh Evans of Watson Wyatt on Scheme Specific Funding and Covenant Assessment. Slides are available here (0.7Mb)
17th July: Margaret Snowdon, Operations Director of Lucida plc, on the defined benefit pension buy-out market and the market for bulk annuities. Slides are available here.(0.3Mb)
27th March: Peter Walker, Director of Delivery, Pension Protection Fund. Slides are available here (0.9Mb).
2007
25th October: Adrian Gallop, Office for National Statistics, on "Mortality Improvements and Life Expectancy", Slides available here. (1.9Mb)
19th July: Malcolm McLean, Chief Executive, The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) on "Current Pension Issues". Slides available from OPA Googlegroup - see Note left.
15th Feb: Philip Hammond MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Work & Pensions, spoke on occupational pensions and Tim Evans, a Consulting Actuary, spoke on "Investment Strategy in Mature Pension Funds" Slides available here.
2006
13th July: John Ashcroft, Head of Strategy at the Pensions Regulator, on the work of the TPR. (Powerpoint presentation slides are available here.)
16th February: Brian Marks on the Turner Commission Report and Peter Austin on Public Service Pensioners' Council and OPA Pensions Conference held on 1st February '06.
2005
13th October: Hilary Salt on "Actuarial Valuation of Pension Funds."
21st July: Trustee discussion panel on "Trustee Knowledge and Understanding"
18 February: Roger Turner and Brian Marks update on the 2004 Pensions Act codes of practice and regulations.
Also see earlier meetings
North-West Region (now ended)
2007
12th Sept: Malcolm McLean, Chief Executive, The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) on "Current Pension Issues". Slides available from OPA Googlegroup - see Note left.
27th June: COST OF LIVING OF THE ELDERLY (A study into the disparity of the CoL increases for the elderly, compared with the RPI) Speaker: Waqar A Abbasi, Regional Development Officer, Help the Aged, North West Region
14th March: "Our Role in Society" by Denise Murphy, Director, Community Service Volunteers
2006
6th December: Simon Jagger on "Investment Strategy in Mature Pension Funds"
7th Sept: Bill Moores, Secretary, North West Pemsioners Association
7th June: Rosemary Mounce of the NAPF on the current pensions crisis and the Citizen's Pension proposal.
8th March: "Sponsor Covenants" by Les Ross and Neil Kilborn of Grant Thornton.
2005
7th Sept: Paul Freisner on "Money Matters"
1st June: Hilary Salt on "Actuarial Valuation of Pension Funds."
2nd March: Paul Hanby on Safety in the Home and an update on the Pensions Act.
Also see earlier meetings
All Party Parliamentary Group on Pensions Consensus
This group was sponsored by the OPA. The inaugural meeting was held on 19 July, '05 with David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and David Blake, Professor of Pension Economics, Cass Business School. The second meeting on 13th December '05 was addressed by Lord Turner. A final report is being prepared.
Pensions Conference - held on 1st February '06. Jointly sponsored with the Civil Service Pensioners Alliance this conference was addressed by Stephen Timms, Minister for Pensions Reform, Nigel Waterson (Cons), Shadow Minister for Pensions, Danny Alexander, LibDem Spokesperson on Work and Pensions and Ian Brinkley, Head of Economic and Social Affairs, TUC. |
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Note
Powerpoint slides from some of these presentations are available to OPA main contact members here.
If you are a member of one of our pensioners' associations and would like to receive a file please contact your association main contact (usually the secretary) to request a copy or contact the webmaster.
Lynne Jones, MP, Chairman of the APPG on Pensions Consensus |
