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Warwickshire County Council Pension Fund

Warwickshire County Council Pension Fund. The 2013 actuarial valuation. Richard Warden Natalie Edelsten 28 November 2013. Agenda. Background to valuation The key assumptions Where we were and where we are now Warwickshire’s valuation results And finally…. Quiz.

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Warwickshire County Council Pension Fund

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  1. Warwickshire County Council Pension Fund • The 2013 actuarial valuation Richard Warden Natalie Edelsten 28 November 2013

  2. Agenda • Background to valuation • The key assumptions • Where we were and where we are now • Warwickshire’s valuation results • And finally…

  3. Quiz • For how long did Warwickshire’s famous son William Shakespeare live? • 43 years old • 68 years old • 52 years old • If Shakespeare was born today, how long would we expect him to live? • 75 years old • 82 years old • 97 years old • How many employees are in the scheme? • 9,000 • 15,500 • 22,000

  4. …and how many pensioners? • 7,600 • 5,100 • 10,700 • How many children are in receipt of a pension in the scheme? • 125 • 75 • 45 • How many participating employers are there in the scheme? • 52 • 101 • 72

  5. What is the average full-time salary of a contributing member? • £18,000 • £25,000 • £20,000 • What is the largest pension in payment in the scheme? • £97,000 • £61,000 • £47,000 • What do the initials CARE stand for? • Career Average Retirement Entitlement? • Compound Accrual Retirement Evaluation • Career Average Revalued Earnings

  6. What was the value of the assets of the Scheme at 30 June 2013? • £1.82bn • £1.36bn • £1.25bn • What is the highest point in the area that is covered by the Warwickshire Pension Fund? EbringtonHill • Who was imprisoned in Warwick Castle in 1469? • King Edward IV • Richard III • William the Conqueror

  7. Background to the valuation

  8. Why do we do a valuation? • Compliance with legislation • Recommend contribution rates • Common rate • Individual employer rates • Determine money needed to meet accrued liabilities • Calculate solvency (“funding level”) • Monitor experience vs. assumptions • Manage risks to Fund and employers • Review the Funding Strategy Statement (FSS)

  9. Funding Strategy Statement • Purpose • establish a clear and transparent fund-specific strategy, • maintain stable employer contribution rates, • take a prudent longer-term view of funding. • Consider • strength of employer covenant • funding risks and controls • inter-valuation monitoring • Links to investment strategy - SIP

  10. The ultimate objective • How much money does the Fund need, and how should it be invested, in order to be able to meet the promised benefits? AssetsWhich ones?How is it done efficiently? ? What are the liabilities?

  11. Achieving the objective Structure Managers Liabilities Assets Future outperformance Future contributions Liabilities Assets

  12. Valuing a single member

  13. What does a pension fund look like? Source: Sample LGPS Fund (past service only)

  14. Keep the actuary covered... Funding level = assets ÷ liabilities

  15. The key assumptions

  16. Long term assumptions • Financial (size of benefits) • Salary increases • Pension increases • Discount rate • Demographic (timing of benefits) • Longevity • Early leavers • Retirement age • Dependants

  17. Impact of changes to assumptions Reduced life expectancy Increased life expectancy Higher inflation Lower inflation Lower discount rate Higher discount rate Increased liabilities Lower liabilities

  18. Signs of ageing

  19. Why is longevity important for pension schemes? • A member dying will affect both: • IF a benefit is paid i.e. a death benefit or a normal benefit • WHEN a benefit is paid i.e. when payment starts and/or how long payments continue • Longevity is the most material demographic assumption

  20. Club Vita • Market leader in longevity analytics and monitoring • Pooling data for (>150) occupational pension schemes • Removes reliance on ad-hoc adjustments to existing tables • 23 years of historic data • No such thing as a typical member • No such thing as an average scheme or employer

  21. Differences in longevity • Unhealthy lifestyle postcode • Ill health retirement • Low affluence • Manual worker • Healthy lifestyle postcode • Normal health retirement • High affluence • Non-manual worker Life expectancy from 65: 11.5 years Life expectancy from 65: 22.4 years Lifestyle 5 years Health 2 years Affluence 3 ½ years Occupation <1 year • No such thing as a typical member • No such thing as an average scheme or employer Source: Club Vita‘s analysis based on membership as at 31 January 2012. Life expectancies shown from age 65, and are based upon Club Vita’s baseline longevity calibrated to the period 2008-2010.

  22. A shift to longer life BCG vaccine introduced into schools (1950s) NHS introduced in England & Wales (1948) Robert Koch discovers tuberculosis pathogen (1882) Cardiovascular disease (focus on later life) Contagious diseases (premature mortality) Source: England & Wales total population data as sourced from Human Mortality Database. (www.mortality.org)

  23. Historic improvements in life expectancy

  24. Where we were and where we are now

  25. Data • Proliferation of new employers • e.g. academies • Active payrolls have fallen • Pay freeze, early retirements, commissioning • Councils have lost actives from schools to academies Messier than last time around

  26. General economic environment Greek Parliament passes key reforms Warning that sovereign debt crisis is spreading No change to RPI QE2 QE3 Pension schemes are not immune to this

  27. Market movements since 2010

  28. Warwickshire’s valuation results

  29. Whole Fund results

  30. Experience since 2010

  31. How has the deficit changed?

  32. Summary: employer deficits mostly up Fund is managing rate increases

  33. Valuation approach • Risk based approach for long term bodies

  34. Contribution Stability Mechanism 30 20 Contributions % pay Unstabilised contributions 10 Stabilised contributions paid 0 2014 2017 2020 2023 2026 Stabilise contributions for tax raising bodies

  35. Key elements of contribution policy • Tax raising bodies increase at +0.75% pa • No Academy pooling (await consultation outcome) • Closed Community Bodies repay deficit over working lifetime • Check long term health of non tax raising bodies • Contractors repay deficit over remaining contract period • Deficit recovery payable by monetary amounts

  36. And finally…

  37. Three structural options • Option 1: Single asset pool across E&W • Option 2: Five to ten asset pools across E&W • Option 3: Five to ten merged funds (asset allocation decisions at merged Fund level) 89Funds Fund E Fund D Fund C Fund B Fund A

  38. Thank you

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