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News analysis, case studies and informed comment on the challenges facing UK pension schemes, from Pensions Expert, a DG Publishing service

News analysis, case studies and informed comment on the challenges facing UK pension schemes, from Pensions Expert, a DG Publishing service

News analysis, case studies and informed comment on the challenges facing UK pension schemes, from Pensions Expert, a DG Publishing service

News analysis, case studies and informed comment on the challenges facing UK pension schemes, from Pensions Expert, a DG Publishing service

Taiwan’s Public Service Pension Fund will be overhauled with new members to be enrolled in a defined contribution scheme rather than the current defined benefit. Other restructuring measures have also been adopted.

Medicare patients today face reduced access to care, which will inevitably be rationed through the Affordable Care Act’s relentless payment cuts. Medicare premium support, long a bipartisan proposal, is the best alternative to this unhappy scenario.

The Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) has challenged assumptions around pension scheme investment as part of the government's Long-term Investment for Technology and Science (LIFTS) initiative.

President Obama’s proposed cap on retirement savings accounts would increase the bias that taxes already impose on saving.

Medicare should move to a premium support model, and Congress must direct Medicare’s limited financial resources at those who need them most.

Obamacare is on the march, and state policymakers must decide by 2014 how they will respond to this encroachment on state’s rights to control their own health insurance markets. The state of Utah has been on the reform path since 2005. With its system of defined contributions (as opposed to the standard defined benefits), a functioning health insurance exchange, and appropriate risk-adjustment mechanisms, Utah has given its workers the freedom to choose among many health plans with different l...