All Administration articles – Page 27
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Opinion
Why trustees should be paid, and how much
Spence & Partners’ Marian Elliott analyses the growing burden of the trustee role, and argues that those willing to take it up should be paid, in the latest edition of Informed Comment.
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News
Making good your scheme's common data shortfall
News analysis: The Pensions Regulator's annual record-keeping survey, released earlier this week, demonstrated a lack of awareness among smaller schemes of their data obligations, but also contained hints about how to repair administrative faults.
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Features
Schemes warn managers on investment fee add-ons
In the second part of schemeXpert.com’s fund management fee survey, we look at what additional charges schemes are willing to accept and how they evaluate them.
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Features
Hackney fines employers to improve admin
The multi-employer scheme has been charging sponsors to encourage more accurate and timely data collection, improving scheme performance and cutting cost.
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Features
GMPF drives annual member admin cost below £14
Local government schemes are using benchmarking and reduced paper trails to save administrative costs. Ian Smith looks at what the private sector can learn from the public sector.
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Features
Local government schemes respond to AE safeguards
Norfolk Pension Fund has issued each of its employers with a guide to complying with new auto-enrolment legislation to ensure members are not induced to leave the scheme.
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Features
Jamaican case firms up record-keeping requirements
Schemes concerned by a Jamaican case heard in the UK that makes it harder to reclaim money paid by mistake should review their delegated administration responsibilities to avoid legal costs.
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Features
Case study: Hertfordshire saves £1.6m with LPFA
With local authorities seeking efficiencies across the board, the London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) has secured its first administration client outside of the capital.
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Features
Schemes cut cost of deferred members' small pots
Defined contribution (DC) schemes are reaching a tipping point where the number of deferred members are beginning to overtake active ones, meaning greater administration costs for members no longer employed at the company.
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Features
Schemes called to urgently review TPAs for 2012
Employers unprepared for auto-enrolment are leaving schemes facing a tough deadline to push through administrative reforms.