Collection LMA/4589 - UNION PENSION SERVICES LIMITED

Identity area

Reference code

LMA/4589

Title

UNION PENSION SERVICES LIMITED

Date(s)

  • 1975-2003 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

3.68 linear metres

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Union Pension Services Limited (UPS) offer consultancy and information services for Trade Unions on state and occupational pension schemes. It was established in 1989 by its director, Bryn Davies, and is based in Brixton, London. UPS produce a survey of pension benefits offered by UK pension schemes titled Pension Scheme Profiles. This publication currently has four editions, produced in 1993, 1996, 2000 and 2003. UPS also offer advisory services to trade unions and produce other publications on pension matters.

UPS was initially a division of Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Limited (PIRC). Bryn Davies was a director of PIRC from 1984.

Archival history

LMA/4589 1975-2003 Collection 3.68 linear metres United Pension Services Ltd

Union Pension Services Limited (UPS) offer consultancy and information services for Trade Unions on state and occupational pension schemes. It was established in 1989 by its director, Bryn Davies, and is based in Brixton, London. UPS produce a survey of pension benefits offered by UK pension schemes titled Pension Scheme Profiles. This publication currently has four editions, produced in 1993, 1996, 2000 and 2003. UPS also offer advisory services to trade unions and produce other publications on pension matters.

UPS was initially a division of Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Limited (PIRC). Bryn Davies was a director of PIRC from 1984.

Deposited in May 2012.

The collection mainly comprises of explanatory booklets for pension scheme members and associated publications such as annual reports which were used by UPS to produce Pension Scheme Profiles.

These are grouped by company (or in a few instances by pension scheme) and arranged alphabetically, following the arrangement of Pension Scheme Profiles. A file's scope and content lists which booklets and other publications are held for a company. The explanatory booklets often included update addendums, application forms or other inserts: these have only been noted if they are unusual. Occasionally a scheme's entry in Pension Scheme Profiles is held.

The collection also includes other PIRC and UPS publications, and publications Bryn Davies acted as a consultant on.

See description in Scope and Content field.

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Copyright rests with the depositor.

English.

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm.

This collection forms part of the Pensions Archive. Copies of the 1996 and 2000 editions of UPS's Pension Scheme Profiles are held the Pension Archive's library at London Metropolitan Archives (library reference 36.13/UNI).

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Added to AIM25 April 2012. Pensions Pension services United Pension Services Ltd Social security Financial service industries Social services Service industries

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited in May 2012.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

The collection mainly comprises of explanatory booklets for pension scheme members and associated publications such as annual reports which were used by UPS to produce Pension Scheme Profiles.

These are grouped by company (or in a few instances by pension scheme) and arranged alphabetically, following the arrangement of Pension Scheme Profiles. A file's scope and content lists which booklets and other publications are held for a company. The explanatory booklets often included update addendums, application forms or other inserts: these have only been noted if they are unusual. Occasionally a scheme's entry in Pension Scheme Profiles is held.

The collection also includes other PIRC and UPS publications, and publications Bryn Davies acted as a consultant on.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

See description in Scope and Content field.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright rests with the depositor.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

This collection forms part of the Pensions Archive. Copies of the 1996 and 2000 editions of UPS's Pension Scheme Profiles are held the Pension Archive's library at London Metropolitan Archives (library reference 36.13/UNI).

Finding aids

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm.

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London Metropolitan Archives

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Language(s)

  • English

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