Join our specialist panel of speakers from Barnett Waddingham and Ernst and Young to share their combined insights and expertise.
The session will bring together Barnett Waddingham’s latest research on UK DB pension schemes with Ernst and Young’s forecasts and insights into the current economic environment on schemes and their sponsors.
Barnett Waddingham will review the impact on DB schemes funding levels and the resulting implications for their endgame strategy. Whilst Ernst and Young will consider profit warnings analysis, their latest item club economic forecasts and Parthenon’s sector insights. Combining to give a complete picture of what is happening to UK DB pension schemes and their sponsors, and how it might evolve, sector by sector, focusing on the resulting implications for their endgame strategy.
Meet the panel:
- Simon Taylor – Partner, Barnett Waddingham
- Jane Ralph - Senior Corporate Actuary, Barnett Waddingham
- James Berkley – Partner in EY’s Pensions Strategy team
- Karina Brookes – Partner in EY’s Pension Strategy team
The panel will consider how companies and trustees can strike the right balance as the situation evolves, and how this will impact endgame strategies for pension schemes. They will also share live examples which illustrate how this balancing act is evolving in real time.
The panel will provide insights into the top tips and actions required to urgently address this extremely challenging question and will allow time to take questions from the audience.
Join our webinar
This session will bring together Barnett Waddingham’s latest research on UK DB pension schemes with Ernst and Young’s forecasts and insights into the current economic environment on schemes and their sponsors. Join our specialist panel of speakers to share their combined insights and expertise.
About your hosts
Simon Taylor
Simon advises companies on defined benefit pension issues including liability and risk reduction exercises, scheme funding and financing, exit strategies, benefit changes and accounting disclosures.
Jane Ralph
Jane delivers strategic risk advice to employer consulting clients across a range DB pension issues including risk reduction exercises (liability management, longevity hedging and annuity purchase), scheme funding, strategic reviews, pension benefit design, impact of legislative change and accounting disclosures.