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SPP Paper – Inclusive Futures

This is a comprehensive Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) paper, which covers Social Mobility, Neurodiversity, LGBTQ+, Disability, Gender and Ethnicity.

This collection of articles will help to further raise awareness and understanding of the continued importance of DEI, as well as stimulating debate both within the pensions sector and the wider business world.

Categories: Guides and Reports,

Tags: DEI, Disability, diversity, EDI, Equity, Ethnicity, Gender, inclusion, investment, LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, pension, Pensions, Savings, social mobility,

  • 24/11/2025
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SPP Paper – Saving Retirement: Who is at Risk and Why?

This SPP paper identifies what the Pensions Commission, recently revived to consider the question of pensions adequacy, should consider and why.

This includes defining “adequate”; identifying the under pensioned; better understanding the trade-off between adequate living and adequate saving; and improving public trust in and awareness of state provision. The paper also explores how disenfranchised groups could be better supported and calls for a long-term plan for increasing auto-enrolment contribution rates.

Categories: Guides and Reports,

Tags: adequacy, investment, pension, pension gaps, Pensions, pensions commission, retirement, Saving, SPP,

  • 21/08/25
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SPP Paper: Power in Principle? Balancing Mandation and Market Confidence (The Pension Schemes Bill)

This SPP Paper is a response to government plans to introduce a power in the Pension Schemes Bill that will allow them to dictate how pension funds invest by requiring a prescribed percentage of investment in UK productive assets.

Categories: Consultations & Publications, Guides and Reports,

Tags: compulsion, investment, mandation, Pensions, productive assets, productive finance, UK,

  • 07/08/2025
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SPP Paper: Trump’s Tariffs and UK Pensions

This informational paper examines the impact on UK pensions of Donald Trump’s recently announced plans to introduce new import taxes on goods from almost every country.

Many who are saving in a UK pension, and those already in receipt of a UK pension, are likely to ask how such events may affect them. This SPP paper utilises the diverse expertise of its membership for the public good and highlights that reactive changes to pensions and other savings are generally not ideal compared with keeping a cool head and planning carefully.

Categories: Guides and Reports,

Tags: DB, DC, investment, UK pension schemes,

  • 07/05/25
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Covenant perspectives on the DB Funding Code: opportunities, risks & myth busting

This short paper sheds light on the various potential risks and opportunities by “busting” some of the myths along each stage of a scheme’s funding and investment strategy journey, with a view to making life under the new DB Funding regime as smooth as possible for all involved parties.

Categories: Guides and Reports,

Tags: covenant, DB, employer covenant, investment, UK pension schemes,

  • 20/11/2024
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SPP response to the Pensions Investment Review 2024 (Call for Evidence)

Amongst other productive finance issues, this response highlights that the SPP agrees that scale can deliver improved investment but that there are risks, which must be guarded against; that legislative change is necessary to better facilitate consolidation and that for the LGPS, asset pooling has been successful but there is more to do. Read on for further information...

Categories: Consultations & Formal Responses, Consultations & Publications,

Tags: government review, investment, pension, Pensions, productive finance,

  • 25/09/24
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