Sign of the times (TT Jan03 p27-29)

Until recently,it was not often that news about occupational pension schemes appeared anywhere other than in specialist industry publications and the financial press. In the past few months,however ,ther e has been an unprecedented amount of column inches and media time devoted to the topic of private and public sector pension schemes. Few people can now be unaware,even if only in passing,that changes are taking place within the industry. Just what these changes are is something The Pension Fund Partnership has been endeavouring to monitor since 1999.