Pension Seminar

The Insurance Society of Edinburgh is happy to announce their pension seminar with guest speaker Steve Webb, Director of Policy and External Communications at Royal London and former Minister of State for Pensions.

In this session, Steve will discuss the pension landscape at the start of the New Year. This will include the review of the state pension age, the review of automatic enrolment, the Green Paper on DB pensions and potential changes to pension tax relief. He will also provide an update on the latest Royal London policy paper research on a range of pension-related topics.

Learning objectives:

By attending this event members will be able to identify:

• The UK pension landscape and how it has evolved
• The pressures on State Pensions and how they are being managed
• Issues under consideration in the 2017 review into automatic enrolment
• The issues affecting pension tax relief and the options available for reform

The seminar will be delivered by Steve Webb who was Minister of State for Pensions between 2010 and 2015, the longest-serving holder of the post. During that time Steve implemented major reforms to the state pension system, oversaw the successful introduction of automatic enrolment and played a key role in the new pension freedoms implemented in April 2015.

Steve was a Liberal Democrat MP from 1997 to 2015. Before this he was professor of social policy at Bath University for two years, having previously worked for nine years as an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Steve graduated with a first class honours degree in PPE from Oxford University in 1986.