All Defined contribution articles – Page 146
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News
How the DC code will affect your scheme
The Pensions Regulator will make its defined contribution code of practice easier for scheme managers to understand after feedback that the line between pensions law and best practice was not clear enough.
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Opinion
Why too many DC regulators spoil the broth
In the latest edition of Informed Comment, PTL’s Richard Butcher argues a single regulator is crucial to the success of defined contribution pension schemes.
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Opinion
Editorial: The two-headed monster
Defined benefit scheme managers and trustees could be forgiven for feeling perplexed at the government’s attitude to the benefits they oversee.
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News
Managing your money purchase legislative risk
News analysis: Managers of pension schemes that have hybrid elements such as additional voluntary contributions have been urged to investigate the impact of a legislative change that could increase their costs.
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Opinion
A scheme guide to AE exceptions and exemptions
In the latest edition of Technical View, Gordons’ Ruth Bamforth takes a trip through some of the exemptions and exceptions to employers’ obligation to auto-enrol their workers.
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Opinion
Debating the pros and cons of illiquid assets in DC
F&C’s Julian Lyne warns that schemes should not ignore the very real liquidity risks in alternative assets, even as they hunger for diversification, in this edition of Informed Comment.
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Opinion
Mastertrust governance: the case for the defence
Letter: PTL’s Richard Butcher takes Now Pensions’ Morten Nilsson to task for his recent critique of mastertrust governance.
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News
Housing group shoots for double contributions in scheme revamp
Shepherds Bush Housing Group are to make its defined contribution scheme the "centrepiece" of its staff benefits provision by mirroring the contributions standards set out by the Pension Quality Mark.
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News
How defined ambition could affect your scheme
Government has outlined proposed legislative modifications to the pensions system including changes to decumulation rules and daily pricing requirements, which could impact current defined contribution and defined benefit schemes.
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News
Industry split over capacity crunch severity for mid-sized employers
Fewer medium-sized employers will be turned away by their existing pension provider for auto-enrolment arrangements than their larger counterparts, according to one such provider, as experts disagree on how smaller companies will fare.
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Features
Care provider offers staff AE contribution reprieve
A social care provider is temporarily rolling its cash-in-lieu-of-pension contribution into its auto-enrolment structure, so employees will not have to pay anything in until 2018.
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News
Evaluating the government's technical AE changes
The technical changes to the regulations for implementing auto-enrolment released by the Department for Work and Pensions have received a mixed response from the industry.
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News
Schemes respond to AE charge cap proposal
News analysis: Managers of large defined contribution schemes have responded to the government's proposed 0.75 per cent charging cap on auto-enrolment arrangements, largely feeling they already fit within the requirement currently under consultation.
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NewsUnilever creates DC committee to focus governance
The Unilever UK Pension Fund has set up a defined contribution committee to boost three key areas of management of its members’ savings.
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Opinion
Why I’m optimistic on the future of defined ambition
In this week’s Informed Comment, Barnett Waddingham’s Nick Griggs looks at the two broad options for a risk-sharing middle way between defined benefit and defined contribution.
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Opinion
Five ways to retain your auto-enrolled members
Schemes can take five swift decisions that will help keep newly enrolled members in their workplace pension scheme, Towers Watson’s Rudi Smith argues in this edition of Technical View.
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News
First Bus uses DC 'nursery' to handle AE
First UK Bus Pension Scheme has set out its redesigned benefits structure, having sought to meet the challenges of auto-enrolment and the end of contracting out by segmenting its workforce.
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Opinion
Bringing together providers to meet your AE duties
Nest’s Graham Vidler discusses how the scheme’s 1,000-plus employers are using it alongside other providers to meet their workplace duties, in the latest Technical View.
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NewsWarburtons sees 2.3% opt-out after comms drive
At just 2.3 per cent Warburtons has seen one of the lowest opt-out rates reported following a communications campaign that included personally contacting each employee that requested a form to leave the scheme.
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News
How Weight Watchers tackled AE demographic challenge
Weight Watchers UK has implemented a unified communication and administration strategy and changed its pension provider to overcome the challenges of delivering auto-enrolment to different employee demographics.