All Data articles – Page 19
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News
Data analytics use on the rise to inform investment decisions
Four in five institutional investors have increased the use of data analytics in the past three years to inform investment and risk-management decisions, and to meet tougher regulatory requirements.
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News
Compliance concerns prompt employers to rethink AE providers
News analysis: Some large employers are considering switching their auto-enrolment provider as their administration needs are not being met, fanning a growing secondary market.
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News
One in three schemes to up smart beta in low-vol drive
Data analysis: More than a third of schemes are considering increasing allocations to smart beta strategies over the coming year, a survey has found, as investors rethink their portfolios.
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News
Bad data: how to diagnose and fix missing records
Schemes managers and trustees are given a step-by-step guide to making their data regulator-proof by Broadstone’s John Newman, in the latest edition of Technical View.
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Opinion
Steering clear of a £500k information security fine
In the latest edition of Technical View, Spence & Partners’ Monica Cope gives a step-by-step guide to protecting data security in the digital age.
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Features
SPPA raising the bar on data precision
The Scottish Public Pensions Agency has initiated a project to benchmark its member data against quality criteria set out by the Pensions Regulator, to find more cost-effective ways of improving data accuracy.
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FeaturesAvon fund upgrades software to reduce data risk
Avon Pension Fund has implemented a new software system to gather member information from employers in order to reduce the risk of errors, as it moves to fully electronic reporting.
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News
Visualise your scheme's demographic shift
Data analysis: Active members have continued to shrink, while deferred member liabilities have continued to rise, presenting a range of investment and governance challenges for UK defined benefit schemes.
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Opinion
How to manage your scheme’s payment error risk
Aon Hewitt’s June Grant takes us step by step through the common errors in overpayment and underpayment cases and how schemes can avoid them, in the latest edition of Technical View.
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Opinion
Editorial: Bringing pensions into the information age
The 21 century has been deemed the information or digital age. It is thought we are now exposed to as much data in a single day as someone in the 15 century was exposed to in an entire lifetime.
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News
Poor data impeding derisking plans for smaller schemes
News analysis:Industry experts have said schemes with poor-quality information should not be put off derisking, following recent research showing many funds feel stifled by inadequate data.
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Opinion
Why pension schemes must act to correct poor data
Bad record-keeping is a blight on the industry and schemes must work with their administrators to meet the challenge, argues Spence & Partners’ Neil Copeland in the latest Industry view.
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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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OpinionHow to avoid a £250,000 data protection fine
Schemes and employers should know their obligations when it comes to looking after member information, but legal experts have warned that without proper consideration it could be easy to fall foul of data protection rules.
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Features
Aircraft scheme achieves 20% buyout uplift
SR Technics UK’s pension scheme has secured benefits of around 20 per cent above what members would have got through the Pension Protection Fund, by investing in matched assets and improving its data.
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Features
Regulator calls for proportionate DC data requests
Responding to industry criticism, the regulator has told schemeXpert.com it is interested in views on how it could "strengthen" its collection of data from defined contribution (DC) schemes.
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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
Engagement vital to improve member data, schemes say
Ian Smith and Owen Walker analyse how the Kingfisher, Aviva and Scottish TV pension plans have encouraged members to update their records and improve their administrative performance.
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Features
PPF assessment period leads to better data
Comment: Schemes that act as if they are in the PPF assessment period can improve their data management, potentially saving administration costs, argues Marian Elliott of Spence and Partners
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Features
More than two-thirds of buyout quotes fail to transact
Consultants and insurers have urged schemes to better prepare for derisking, following revelations that just one in three buyout quotations lead to transaction.