Nigel Bateman
- Special Report
Managing pension and benefit risk
Gabriele Buchs and Nigel Bateman outline Deutsche’s Bank journey towards a co-ordinated approach to pension risk
- Features
When captives set you free
Across Europe, companies have been struggling to contain or reduce costs. As the expense of employee benefits has skyrocketed over the last few years it is not surprising that companies have been taking a long, hard look at how to limit and reduce costs, manage risks and how best to ...
- Features
Tectonic shifts in benefits landscape
A recent global survey of multinationals’ management of employee benefits programmes conducted by Towers Perrin*, revealed two consistent motivations: a desire to control costs and a need to manage risk. If innate good practice was not driving companies in this direction, regulators have now wrenched the steering wheel and opened ...
- Features
Why Euro groups must centralise
As the New Year rings in the euro, how much evidence is there that European companies are adopting a more centralised approach to benefits management at the same time as they start using the single currency? The reasons for a more centralised approach are compelling. Employee benefits represent a huge ...