UNION PENSION SERVICES LIMITED

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: LMA/4589
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: UNION PENSION SERVICES LIMITED
Date(s)	: 1975-2003
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 3.68 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: United Pension Services Ltd

Context

Administrative/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.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

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.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English.

System of arrangement:

See description in Scope and Content field.

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.

Finding aids:

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

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in May 2012.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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).

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
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.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Added to AIM25 April 2012.