All Governance articles – Page 31
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Features
Are you an informed investor?
Any other business: Following a romp to all-time highs the FTSE 100 stuttered last week, with slips by multinationals and financials. More than ever, trustees must be engaged investors to ensure scheme decisions deliver good outcomes.
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News
Is your scheme an active owner?
Any other business: Carbon emissions, tax avoidance and executive remuneration are key political issues. But they also matter to many shareholders, who see them as touchstones to the long-term strength of the companies in which they invest.
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Opinion
What will the election result mean for the pensions industry?
Tom McPhail of Hargreaves Lansdown predicts the direction each party will take on pensions if they win the general election.
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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
How to reconcile multiple appointments on governance boards
Any other business: In three weeks, the requirement for pension providers to form independent governance committees to monitor the effective running of contract-based schemes will come into force.
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News
Why the regulator will not publish a definitive list of AE schemes
The industry has given a mixed response to the Pensions Regulator’s decision not to publish a list of auto-enrolment schemes available to smaller employers, with some suggesting it could do more.
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Opinion
Buchanan: Lay trustees play an often unenviable but critical role
Since Duncan Buchanan first became a pensions lawyer more than 23 years ago, he writes, the level of complexity of pensions has increased both in terms of legislation but also the case law set by judges – a recent IBM judgment exceeded 600 pages in length.
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News
How institutional managers are using animal welfare index
Proponents of a benchmark monitoring global food companies on animal welfare are pushing for wider adoption of by institutional investors as a tool to evaluate management boards and control risk.
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Opinion
How to manage the risks of your renewable energy holdings
Impax’s Ominder Dhillon explains how schemes can navigate the risks and nuances of renewable energy assets to help diversify portfolios.
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OpinionEditorial: Adding pages to the rulebook
"Clearer, perhaps tougher... governance is not automatically more effective," wrote Richard Butcher in last week's Informed Comment. Bad decisions can still be made within a decent structure.
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News
Regulatory overhaul creates ‘perfect storm’ for DC schemes
Defined contribution schemes were hit with a slew of regulation last week across contract-based and trust-based provision, as the government and the City watchdog attempted to unify standards in these two areas.
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Opinion
What a Labour government could mean for pensions
PTL’s Richard Butcher outlines six key areas in which a Labour-led government could determine the next steps for UK pension provision.
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Opinion
Does Saudi Arabia's succession planning put your scheme to shame?
Industry experts have warned that schemes are not putting enough thought into what would happen should they need to replace their trustee chair or pension director, leaving themselves open to administrative risk.
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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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Opinion
McClymont: Why IGCs are missing the I and G
There is nothing more important than good governance to ensure value-for-money workplace pensions. Without robust governance in the interest of savers, the success of auto-enrolment is not a sure thing.
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News
Uncertainty on IGC detail as providers get ready for April
Pension scheme providers are gearing up ahead of the April deadline to create independent governance committees, but are eagerly awaiting further details on how the arrangements will be run.
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News
When it comes to expenses, trustees face having their belts tightened
Rolling into the office after 12 indulgent days of Christmas, trustees and scheme managers may be tempted to brighten up a gloomy January, but scheme expenses could be squeezed this year.
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NewsM&S weighs drawdown option for mastertrust members
Retailer Marks & Spencer is exploring offering drawdown to its defined contribution scheme members, as the industry readies itself for April's retirement flexibilities in a tough market for annuities.
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News
Latest IORP revision ditches 'professional' qualification requirement for trustees
The latest revision of the European Commission pensions directive has removed a contentious requirement for trustees to have a "professional" qualification – reigniting debate in the industry on the merits of a minimum standard of training.
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Opinion
Where is innovation coming from in fiduciary management?
Barnett Waddingham’s Simon Cohen, Buck Consultants’ Brian McCauley, Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Carolyn Tavares, Russell Investments’ Shamindra Perera, Sackers’ Stuart O’Brien, and Towers Watson’s Pieter Steyn compare experiences of innovation within the fiduciary management arena, in the final part of this discussion.