The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Short training courses

Content of Introducing and Understanding Pensions

Understanding the basics 

  • occupational pensions
  • individual pensions; state pensions

Legislation 

  • stakeholder; Financial Services Act
  • Pensions Act; trustees’ duties
  • pension simplification

The professionals 

  • help – do you need it? where to get it?
  • what will it cost? what will they do?

Designing a pension package

  • your aims
  • costing the options; making spending effective
  • integration; flexible benefits

Payroll and taxation 

  • operation; record-keeping
  • payroll problems

Changing/inheriting pension problems

  • converting to defined contribution
  • closing schemes
  • mergers/acquisitions/sales
  • pension development – Green Paper

Communicating pensions

  • restrictions; getting it right
  • making it effective; the cost of errors

Action Planning.