All Defined contribution articles – Page 73
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PodcastsPodcast: Webb - Budget must deliver for doctors
Podcast: Former pensions minister Steve Webb argued that “it would be astonishing” if the March 11 Budget does not bring a solution to the issues caused by the tapered annual allowance for doctors and senior clinicians. Sir Steve, now partner at Lane Clark & Peacock, and Lydia Fearn, head of defined contribution and financial well-being at Redington, discuss, among other topics, the possible changes for pensions to be introduced by the chancellor.
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Workplace pension numbers hit record high
On the go: The number of UK employees in workplace pension schemes reached a record high last year, but one provider giant has warned this is masking the millions still saving at “inadequate levels”.
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Blue chips rush to offload DC pension plans to master trusts
More and more blue-chip employers are looking to transfer their defined contribution pension plans to the new breed of master trusts. The Vodafone UK DC Pension Plan is the latest to move all members’ accounts, amounting to £1.4bn, into LifeSight. The transaction is expected to be finalised by the end of March 2020.
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General levy uplift to cost private schemes £4.9m in first year
Private sector pension schemes will see their general levy bill increase by £4.9m in 2020-21 as the government has confirmed a hike of 10 per cent to overcome a shortfall in funding in future years will go ahead.
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OpinionThe biggest driver of change in DC
Data Crunch: Broadridge’s Jonathan Libre looks at recent changes in legislation in the defined contribution space and how these schemes have adapted to a fast-evolving world of requirements.
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Features
Fraud costs pensions £6bn every year
Data crunch: Almost a decade after a wave of pension liberation tax schemes hit the UK retirement sector, fraudulent activity is still having a detrimental impact on savers – costing schemes £6bn every year, according to the latest analysis.
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KPMG pensions spin-off targets industry modernisation
On the go: KPMG’s former pensions advisory business has relaunched as Isio following its sale to a private equity backer, with the new company looking to grow its consolidation offering and improve the industry’s use of technology.
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Auto-enrolment process creates 'employee underclass'
Three out of four pensions professionals say employers should be free to statutorily enrol any employee they wish, even if current auto-enrolment age and earnings criteria are not met.
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Social care crisis: is auto-enrolment the answer?
Auto-enrolment-style contributions could hold the key to solving the UK’s growing social care crisis, according to the sponsors of a report into the funding shortfall for care in later life.
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DWP: Government will not dictate schemes’ ESG investments
The government insists it is not intervening in pension scheme investment strategies with a climate change amendment to the pension schemes bill introduced earlier this month.
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Maps to survey schemes on dashboard challenges
On the go: The Money and Pensions Service has commissioned qualitative research to understand the challenges pension schemes face with providing data for the pensions dashboards.
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DWP self-employed savings trials disappoint
On the go: A Department for Work and Pensions trial of techniques to encourage more self-employed workers to save into a pension pot has failed to persuade many to log into their accounts.
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Cracknell: Industry fails to explain ‘how’ savers can make changes
Michelle Cracknell on her new role at Just Group after a five-year stint leading the Pensions Advisory Service.
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OpinionPensions in an open finance future?
The possibilities to improve pensions using open finance are many and wide-ranging, but the industry must be honest about the challenges of implementing such a framework, writes the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s George Currie.
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PodcastsPodcast: Regulator should take ‘softly-softly’ approach to DC consolidation
Podcast: The Pensions Regulator should take a “softly-softly” approach to defined contribution consolidation, similar to what happened with master trusts during the authorisation process, where subtle conversations occurred and schemes decided to exit in an orderly manner, according to Adrian Boulding, director of policy at Now Pensions. He and Rosalind Connor, partner at Arc Pensions Law, discuss the response from the watchdog to its consultation of the future of trusteeship and governance, among other topics.
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Pension schemes to share scams intelligence online
The Pension Scams Industry Group is working with anti-fraud organisation Cifas to launch a network of open-source information on suspicious companies and pension arrangements, which specialists say could be an important step in bringing scams under control.
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Increased trustee workload to unleash wave of DC consolidation
On the go: One in three trust-based defined contribution arrangements expects to transfer members into a master trust over the next five years, with stakeholders citing the drain on time and resources of running an own-trust solution.
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Features
Hundreds of thousands of micro pots suffer remorseless attrition
Data crunch: Eight years after the auto-enrolment revolution, millions of workers’ pensions are left languishing in master trusts when they move jobs.
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Govt maintains earnings trigger despite industry criticism
On the go: The government has opted to maintain the earnings trigger for automatic enrolment at £10,000 for 2020-21, despite long-held industry concerns that the current level is limiting pensions coverage among underprivileged demographics.
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OpinionTime to focus on getting 2020 pension vision for self-employed
Scottish Widows’ Peter Glancy examines the available solutions to get self-employed workers saving into a pension, and explains why the government needs to implement reforms in this area.