All Data articles – Page 18
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Opinion
Schemes are falling short on data. Here are five reasons to improve
Punter Southall’s Rob Saville explores how pension schemes can address a shortfall where one in five have no idea of their common data score, and three in five do not know their conditional data score, in the latest edition of Informed Comment.
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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.
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News
Buy-in market predicted to reach new heights
The amount of scheme liabilities underwritten by insurers is expected to reach a record high this year as buy-ins become more affordable and scheme confidence grows, derisking consultants have said.
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Opinion
How to get scheme data up to scratch for a buy-in/buyout
PIC’s Matt Gore makes the argument for all schemes getting their data up to scratch to improve the security of member benefits, in the latest edition of Informed Comment.
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NewsPPF targets transparency with insolvency levy changes
Schemes will be able to more precisely focus their efforts to reduce their Pension Protection Fund levy, following the lifeboat’s proposals to make its insolvency risk system more transparent.
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News
Analytics providers call for safeguards on member data
Schemes using online data analytics systems to inform investment and risk-management decisions have been urged by system providers to put in place governance procedures to ensure data security.
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Features
NESPF automates employer data submission to plug gaps
North East Scotland Pension Fund is working towards implementing a fully automated process for employers submitting member data, after narrowly failing to hit all the Pensions Regulator’s targets for common data accuracy.
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OpinionEditorial: For the data controller (that's you)
While it may not receive the same frenzied attention as pension liberation, or hold the excitement of stewarding a growth portfolio, data protection is clearly of critical importance.
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Opinion
Data security cannot just be a box-ticking exercise
ITS’s Janet Branagh argues fines of as much as £500,000 and even potential imprisonment should focus scheme trustees’ minds on how to make sure their member data are properly protected, in the latest edition of Informed Comment.
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News
Care provider scheme overhaul nets 8% opt-out rate
The charity Alternative Futures Group has condensed its staff pension plans to two down from five in a bid to simplify its offering for auto-enrolment, achieving an 8 per cent opt-out rate in the process.
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News
Ombudsman decision underscores record-keeping risk
Schemes have been urged to record benefit decisions after a determination by the pensions ombudsman found against trustees that had not properly documented a resolution to cease discretionary increases.
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Opinion
PPF: How we slashed assessment times with data push
Talking head: The PPF’s David Heslop explains how the fund’s push to improve data quality has reduced processing costs for transferring schemes and levy payers.