OBJECTIVES

To inform SME sponsors and trustees of developments in the DB pension system.

To provide an online hub for the exchange of links, expertise etc.

To provide Sponsor and other feedback to policymakers.

To comment on a Public Sector Consolidator role for the PPF and private alternatives.

To abolish tax on the return to sponsors of overpayments to the PPF.

To establish where the balance between LDI and investing in British business is.

To alter the calculation of ‘actuarial deficits’ to assess liabilities more accurately.

To get TPR, the PPF and ONS to synchronize data. (In process.)

To get the PPF to accept Levy payments by month or quarter with a modest interest rate.

To revise FRS 102 etc. to calculate the ‘debt’ of a ‘deficit’ adjusted to technical provisions.

To get the Pension Regulator to communicate with sponsors and establish a stakeholder’s forum.

The review and elimination of the needless and costly administrative regulations imposed.