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Try it nowUnderstanding pensions better, with Pension Awareness 2023
The national Pension Awareness campaign is marking its 10th
birthday, with a series of free, online events from 11-15 September 2023.
Open to all ages, these events are designed to make complex information about pensions easier to understand and help people make more well-informed decisions about their pension and their future.
While these events will not give you specific information about your options within this Scheme, they will help to give you a broader understanding of some important pension topics.
The subjects being covered, include:
- How much will I need to save for retirement?
- Everything you want to know about workplace pensions but were afraid to ask
- The new State Pension explained
- Pensions and tax explained
- How can financial advice help me?
Each session will last around 45 minutes and will be available to watch back later for anyone who is unable to attend.
You can download a full timetable of the live events on the Pension Awareness Day website.
For further details or to book, please visit pensionawarenessday.com/live-shows
Alongside the live shows, Pension Awareness 2023 is also offering access to a wide range of articles, videos and resources, designed to further enhance your pension knowledge. You can find all of these online at pensionawarenessday.com
Pension Awareness 2023 is supported by Pension Geeks, Pension Attention, MoneyHelper and the Department for Work and Pensions.
It marks the start of a whole season of events aimed at getting members of all ages more interested in their pension. Other highlights include:
- The Pay Your Pension Some Attention Campaign, which launches the week beginning 18 September.
- National Pension Tracing Day – 29 October
- Talk Money Week – 6 to 10 November
We’ll share further details about these other events in the coming weeks.
Matt Riley
Manager
Matt joined Zedra Governance Limited (formerly PTL) in January 2008 having previously worked for Mercer Limited, Hazell Carr and Prudential.
As a Manager for the company's Birmingham Office, Matt’s responsibilities include working closely with Client Directors and individually liaising with Employers, Trustees and Members to ensure the smooth running of their pension schemes. Matt’s current portfolio of clients covers ongoing, paid-up and winding-up schemes. In addition, Matt has experience of schemes that have transferred or are in the process of transferring to the Pension Protection Fund and Financial Assistance Scheme. Matt also works closely with clients in relation to risk registers and internal controls.
Matt particularly enjoys resolving issues in a fair and pragmatic way ensuring that the right result is reached for the member or employer.
Sam Burden
Client Director
Sam Burden joined Zedra Governance (formerly PTL) in 2022. He is an Accredited Professional Pension Trustee (AMAPPT) and an Associate of the Pensions Management Institute (APMI)
Sam has more than 25 years’ experience in the pensions industry gained with WTW, KPMG, and Standard Life working with a wide range of pension schemes and sponsoring employers. His trustee appointments include DB, DC and hybrid pension schemes and he has experience of handling a broad range of projects relating to the management of pension schemes.
Beyond his pensions experience Sam is a former Birmingham City Councillor where he chaired the audit committee and a current charity trustee.
Payam Kazemian
Client Director
Payam Kazemian joined Zedra Governance Limited (formerly PTL Governance Limited) in 2021. He is an Accredited Professional Pension Trustee (AMAPPT) and an Associate of the Pensions Management Institute (APMI).
Payam has more than 17 years of experience in the pensions industry. Through his current role as a professional trustee, as well as previously as a pension’s de-risking and investment structuring expert at financial institutions including Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, he has had overall responsibility for creating investment, de-risking, journey planning, and governance solutions for a wide range of UK DB pension schemes. He currently holds a number of board positions (as Chair of Trustees) and sole trustee in his professional trustee capacity. Payam has been involved with a number of pensions projects including pensions buy-in, pensions buy-out, GMP equalisation, investment strategy reviews, and dialogue with the pensions regulator. Payam looks to create and believes in a collaborative relationship between the sponsor, the trustee, and all other parties involved as this results in best member outcomes and helps deliver pragmatic solutions for scheme. Aside from his pensions experience, Payam holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Cambridge.
