By Mark Colton at BWCI mark.colton@bwcigroup.com “The sheer scale of the problem caught pension schemes off guard” The now infamous “Mini Budget” in September 2022 sparked chaos in UK financial markets. The headlines were filled with dire warnings of pension schemes becoming insolvent, yet many schemes’ funding levels have actually benefited substantially as a result of… Read More »
Business owners have hundreds of things to keep track of, so that’s why at BWCI Pension Trustees Limited (“BWCI”) we keep our pension plans straightforward and transparent. In fact, the burden on employers is much smaller than most anticipate, and the benefits to workers are often life changing. The key word in all of this… Read More »
BWCI Secondary Pensions Seminars
Don’t worry this isn’t an article with lots of tut-tutting about starting a pension late in life. It’s not unusual nowadays for people to begin building their pension egg in their 40s and 50s. Young people are experiencing lots of financial pressures, such as paying off debt, trying to get on the property ladder, and… Read More »
By Carl Stanford at BWCI “the UK is ranked in the top three national issuers of green bonds“ What are Green Gilts? “Green gilts”, a new classification of UK government bonds (“gilts”) were launched towards the end of 2021. This latest form of government debt has the same structure as traditional (“Brown”) gilts, however the money… Read More »