Previous OPA Meetings
Please note: OPA Regional meetings are open to all pensioners - membership of an OPA association is not required to attend and that, unless otherwise stated, they are held at the Riverside Arts Centre, Old Bank Building, Sunbury-on-Thames.
London & South Eastern Region:
3rd Nov '11: Jill Leyland, Vice president of the Royal Statistical Society and Chair of the RSS National Statistics Working Party, on "Problems in measuring UK inflation". Slides are available here.
21st July '11: Tamara Finkelstein on "Lord Hutton's Independent Public Service Pensions Commission: Public service pensions: the case for reform" for which she was Head of Secretariat. Slides are available here.
1st March '11: OPA co-sponsored meeting at House of Commons, Westminster: RPI to CPI - Indexation of State Pensions and Public Service Pensions
17th February '11: Martin Jenkins, Head of UK Pensions and Partner at solicitors, DWF LLP, on "Legal aspects of the switch to CPI". Martin has now kindly provided us with briefing notes which have been circulated to all member associations on the OPA Googlegroup and these should be regarded as "confidential to members" only. If any member has not received these notes please e-mail me.
2010
23rd Nov'10: OPA co-sponsored conference, at Hamilton House, London: "Putting a Price on Pensions: The Cost of the CPI". Slides from the Royal Statistical Society presentation are available here.
28 Oct '10: Louise Inward, Group Legal Counsel with the Pension Insurance Corporation, on insuring pension risks and the CPI v RPI. Slides are available here.
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
23rd 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 on application to webmaster.
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.
Also see earlier meetings
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