Talking Pensions

Recorded in June 2024, this is the first of a two-part interview with Martin Freeman. Martin has had a long and distinguished career in pensions administration and technology, and has recently set up Pensio, which aims to help schemes and software providers in the field of pensions technology systems. In this part, Martin talks about his career, his views on pensions administration and where we are on the pensions dashboard.

A transcript of this podcast can be found here. 

In the latest episode of Talking Pensions (recorded in March 2024), Paul talks to Steve Delo, Chairman of PAN Trustees. They discuss the role of independent pension trustees, the move to the corporate sole trustee model, buy-outs, consolidation and master trusts, and fiduciary duties. 

A transcript of this podcast is available here. 

In the latest episode of Talking Pensions (recorded in October 2023), Paul talks to Anna Rogers, Senior Partner of Arc Pensions Law. They discuss Anna's career, the establishment of Arc, how to deal with mistakes in documentation arising during benefit specification exercises, the Pensions Dashboard, and past and present issues relating to surplus.

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

In the latest episode of Talking Pensions (recorded in January 2024), Paul talks to the Pensions Ombudsman, Dominic Harris. They discuss Dominic's background in pensions, the work of the Ombudsman, the recent cyber-incident and the key issues likely to emerge in the future.

A transcript of the podcast can be found here.

To celebrate Pensions Barrister's tie-in with Perspective, this month's podcast (recorded in November 2023) features Raf Shergold, the Managing Director of Perspective. Paul talks to Raf about the history, development and future of the premier online pensions law resource.  

A transcript of the podcast can be found here.

Welcome to Take Two, a new podcast series from pensionsbarrister.com in which our consulting editor, Emily Campbell, interviews legal professionals on technical topics of interest to pension lawyers.

Emily's guest for this episode is Nick Hurley, head of employment and immigration at Charles Russell Speechlys. Emily and Nick talk about employment law issues that affect pension schemes, including contractual changes to pension benefits and TUPE transfers of Beckmann rights. 

A transcript of the podcast can be found here.

In the twelfth episode of Talking Pensions (recorded in October 2023), Paul talks to Luke Hartley, Head of Pensions Advisory Services at Grant Thornton, about his career in the covenant advisory industry, the changes he has seen since the introduction of scheme specific funding, the challenges facing employers and trustees, and the outlook for the future.

A transcript of the podcast can be found here.

In the latest episode of Talking Pensions (recorded in October 2023), Paul talks to Miriam Kimber, Director of Legal at the PPF, about her role in the organisation and about issues currently being dealt with at the PPF, including pension increase and compensation caps, contingent assets, LDIs and the future of the PPF. 

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In this episode, Paul talks to Jeff Highfield, former Head of Finance at the PPF and now chair of the Pensions Archive Trust, about the work of the trust in archiving material from private pension schemes.

A transcript of the podcast is available here.

In the ninth episode of Talking Pensions (recorded in January 2023), Paul talks to Anthony Raymond, General Counsel and Director of Legal Services at the Pensions Regulator, about the structure and priorities of the Regulator and the challenges it faces in the future.

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