Arup: Investing for later in life

When global engineering firm Arup closed its final-salary pension, it wanted to ensure that as many of its employees as possible joined its high-quality replacement scheme, thus honouring the organisation's founding principle of looking after its staff.

Arup: Investing for later in life

Agency: Ferrier PearceClient: ArupCategory: Internal Communications

Executive summary

Arup is an independent firm of consulting engineers and designers, with a strong set of core values passed down from its founder Sir Ove Arup. These core values such as, social usefulness and reasonable prosperity of members were the driving force behind Arup being the last firm in its sector to close its final salary scheme.

Once they had made the difficult decision to close the final salary pension scheme, Arup sought to provide the best quality alternative it could. The...

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