Plans for relaxing long-established rules on the way DB pension fund surpluses can be used are due to be announced this spring, the UK Treasury said at end-January, and details will be set out in a reply to a consultation on the “Options for Defined Benefit Schemes ” launched by the previous government.The Treasury also […]
PRG News Bulletin IV – Feb 2025 PRG wishes all Reuters pension members a happy and healthy 2025. It has been some months since we last published a newsletter, but the group has been active in responding to concerns raised by RPF and SPS members. Three issues have been brought to the group’s attention and
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In a recent House of Commons debate on private pensions schemes, Alistair Carmichael, MP for the Shetlands and the Orkneys, criticised some major employers in the UK for failing to pay their pensioners discretionary inflationary increases for their pre-1997 service. Carmichael, whose constituency includes companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon, delivered an eloquent and
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PRG News Bulletin III – Apr 2024 Older RPS and SPS pensioners can breathe a small sigh of relief after their 2.5% annual cost of living increase agreement was extended for another three years to 2027. The deal between the RPF/SPS trustees and the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) was announced on April 18 following
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Dear XXXXXX Date MP for XXXXXXXXXXXXX I write to seek your support for our campaign to achieve fair annual cost of living increases for elderly pensioners whose incomes are hugely impacted by inflation. These are the thousands of members of UK defined benefit (DB) company pension schemes
From: Ministerial Correspondence, Caxton House, Tothill Street, LONDON SW1H 9DA www.dwp.gov.uk ministers@dwp.gov.uk Our Ref: TO2024/12322 19 February 2024 Dear Ms Dean, Thank you for your email of 9 February to the Minister for Pensions about the Reuters Pension Scheme. Government Ministers receive a large volume of correspondence and they are unable to reply personally on
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Sharp-eyed pensioners were concerned when they spotted that Reuters Pension Fund assets had dropped by more than a billion pounds between 2021 and 2022. The latest accounts show a 39% drop in assets from 2.8 billion pounds to 1.7 billion. This information is from the Reuters Pension Fund Website – Members Information – Questions and
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Paul Walker, the former Reuters man who built our new Pension Review Group (PRG) website, is a mad keen runner with a dodgy back going for next year’s London Marathon in memory of his sister Louise. Married, with two teenage children, Paul built the new Pension Review Group (PRG) website reuterspensioners.org.uk in his own time for free,
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www.reuters.com/markets/europe/lseg-urges-progress-redirecting-pension-cash-into-uk-companies-2023-11-17/
LSEG CEO urges progress in UK pension cash shift to companies – Reuters 17 Nov 23 Read More »
www.reuters.com/business/lseg-raises-growth-guidance-announces-new-share-buyback-post-refinitiv-push-2023-11-16/