About Us
What is PensionsGym.com?
PensionsGym.com provides free, interactive online training sessions on investment concepts - educational workouts. We break down complex investment concepts into concise, accessible chunks of relevant information - in a way that you are sure to remember. It was designed to respond to The Pensions Act 2004, which identifies an urgent 'Requirement for Knowledge and Understanding' amongst trustees.
Register your details to access the site for free. Once you are a member of the PensionsGym you can try any of the online interactive workouts - choose a topic you need to know more about from a host of workouts, say you choose Liability Driven Investing. Your Liability Driven Investing workout will commence with comment from the team of Financial Times Business Pensions Editors followed by an interactive learning session - try it for yourself. Each workout will typically last approximately 10 minutes.
PensionsGym.com was created by Financial Times Business, part of the Financial Times group which is owned by Pearson plc. PensionsGym.com was conceptualised by our team of editors following the release of the Pensions Act 2004 and the required obligations for 'Knowledge and Understanding' amongst individual and corporate trustees of:-
- the law relating to pensions and trusts;
- the principles relating to -
- the funding of occupational pension schemes, and
- investment of the assets of such schemes, and
- such matters as may be prescribed. (Pensions Act 2004, Part 5, 247 subsection 4)
Not only does the Pensions Act 2004 require trustees to have a knowledge and understanding but to be able to exercise this knowledge if necessary:-
'Degree of knowledge and understanding required by subsection (4) is that appropriate for the purposes of enabling the individual properly to exercise his functions as trustee of any relevant scheme.' (Pensions Act 2004, Part 5, 247)
