All Data articles – Page 17
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News
Anxious academics and drawdown letdowns – tomorrow’s DC battles
Analysis: Digital advice, the introduction of the academic sector’s first defined contribution scheme and greater choice in drawdown solutions are just three of the things set out by industry professionals as priorities for 2016.
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Opinion
Is the medically underwritten annuity market too good to be true?
With many schemes seeking to take advantage of insurance pricing based on members' individual health rather than the more traditional postcode models, we have seen the emergence of a new approach to the pricing of bulk annuities.
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NewsFCA pays out £200,000 after benefit error
The Financial Conduct Authority has paid £200,000 to members of its own staff scheme after discovering benefit calculation errors affecting more than 1,200 employees.
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OpinionAddressing diversity in scheme communications
Do you remember the John Lewis Christmas advert? The one with the penguin? Monty?
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Opinion
How your scheme can make the most of big data
Any other business: Last week's piece explored how schemes can tighten their data compliance processes. But how can trustees take data one step further to improve how the scheme is run?
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Opinion
Three graphs showing why a pensions dashboard matters
A survey by provider B&CE has shown most pension savers support the introduction of a 'pensions dashboard' and comes a day after the Financial Conduct Authority announced it would work with the government on developing such a platform.
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Features
Are your data handling processes compliant?
Any other business: Hillary Clinton found herself in hot water recently over use of a private email account during her tenure as US secretary of state. The breach of White House data protocols ignited criticism.
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News
Leading DB funds target responsible investment disconnect
The UK’s largest pension funds have put pressure on fund managers to make the case for their responsible investment strategies, publishing a guide intended to “break down the information barriers” between schemes and managers.
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Kent sees 75% reduction in overpayment write-offs
Kent Pension Fund has driven down its overpayment write-offs by 75 per cent after the implementation of monthly mortality screening – as administration experts raise concerns about schemes’ data holes.
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News
GMP reconciliation to be major 2015 challenge for schemes
Pensions professionals have said guaranteed minimum pension equalisation will be their biggest project in 2015, a survey has shown, as the end of contracting out forces schemes to undertake exercises.
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Opinion
Schemes are falling short on data. Here are five reasons to improve
The Pensions Regulator's latest annual record-keeping survey revealed that one in 10 schemes do not know what their overall common data score is because it has never been measured.
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News
Plumbing scheme works to trace 7,000 addresses in data push
The Plumbing and Mechanical Services Industry Pension Scheme has taken steps to trace scheme members to improve its record-keeping, with the address of almost one in every five currently missing.
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News
Experts call for Dutch-style information standards
Industry experts have called for the standardisation of pension scheme information, in the style of the uniform pension overviews found in the Netherlands.
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Opinion
Five reasons to improve your scheme data quality
There is no mystery to how we got to where we are with pension scheme data, or why the Pensions Regulator felt the need to intervene.
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Opinion
Schemes make record gilts investment, and three other key ONS charts
Schemes invested heavily in fixed income assets – including government, corporate and overseas bonds – last quarter. Anticipated rate rises, schemes derisking out of equities and even switching from synthetic to real gilt holdings have all been investment drivers.
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Opinion
Four data-cleansing steps to improve your scheme
In the latest edition of Technical Comment, LCP’s Aiden Coloe and Chris Holly set out four steps for scheme managers, trustees and administrators to improve scheme data and reduce costs.
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Opinion
Let's make friends: Industry pushes for AE data standard
Data have been a sticking point for many schemes and employers. Who can blame them? Of all the areas of pensions, data isn’t the most inspiring and engaging to newcomers.
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Features
What the regulator's record-keeping survey can tell your scheme
Many schemes are still failing to properly assess the quality of their common and conditional data, results from the Pensions Regulator’s 2014 record-keeping survey show.
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Opinion
Six key graphs on the regulator's uphill task on scheme data
The Pensions Regulator last week released its annual record-keeping survey, which once again showed smaller schemes were falling behind their larger counterparts.
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Opinion
Schemes ploughed £24bn into gilts last year despite low yields
Pension schemes compelled last year to derisk at historically low yields quadrupled the previous year’s gilt purchases, according to official data that have left investment experts surprised.