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OpinionGarbage in, garbage out
Girish Menezes, a board director at the Pensions Administration Standards Association, highlights the need for collaboration between trustees and administrators to ensure a high-quality member experience, while managing costs and delivery expectations.
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OpinionTo transition or not to transition, that is the question
Premier Pensions’ Girish Menezes explains what trustees should take into account when it comes to transitioning to a new administration provider.
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OpinionSelf-driving pensions are worth our consideration
Artificial intelligence and other technologies are developing at breakneck speed, and many have pensions applications. It is time to explore the best practice in relation to these emerging technologies, says the Pensions Administration Standards Association’s Girish Menezes.
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OpinionFire, fury and GDPR
From the blog: Hell hath no fury like a lawyer or auditor scorned. The General Data Protection Regulation has unfortunately put the pensions industry in that dangerous position where we have to run a gauntlet, deciding how seriously to take the dire warnings of these two professional communities.
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FeaturesShell becomes latest scheme to push electronic comms
The Shell Contributory Pension Fund has begun requesting email addresses from members as it takes the first step towards electronic communication, the latest in a long line of schemes to do so.
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OpinionHow to keep on top of an ageing workforce
Over-50s are set to become the dominant age-group in the UK’s workforce, new analysis has shown, leading to potentially dramatic changes for employers and trustees.
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FeaturesRoyal Mail runs survey as freedoms heighten need for engagement
The Royal Mail Pension Plan is running an online member survey to judge engagement and levels of understanding among its members as freedom and choice makes member decisions even more important.
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NewsTrinity Mirror reviews advisers ahead of DC default appraisal
Trinity Mirror Pension Plan has carried out a consultant review ahead of an appraisal of its defined contribution default fund, spurred by the introduction of the freedom and choice reforms.
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Do trust and contract-based plans require separate regulation?
Analysis: Defined contribution schemes are regulated by two separate bodies, each of which works better in certain scenarios, a Pensions Policy Institute report has found. But the debate continues on whether a single watchdog would improve the current regime.
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VWV boosts membership 13% through DC and savings platform
Law firm Veale Wasbrough Vizards increased both staff contributions and active membership of its pension fund after a scheme overhaul allowed members to view their Isas and investments alongside their pensions.
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Advisers flock to Nest but micro employers slow to arrive
Mastertrust Nest has experienced increased take-up of its professional services online hub in the run-up to the biggest waves of auto-enrolment stagers next year, but micro employers’ preparations are still lagging behind expectations.
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Opinion
How do you run a trustee election?
Following a largely unexpected result last week, the United Kingdom has a team in place to try and steer the country towards greater prosperity, opportunity and fairness (we hope).
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Opinion
Educating your members on the risk of freedom
Analysis: In the 1998 film Armageddon, while battling G-force in a shuttle around the moon, hero AJ Frost asks: “Is this supposed to be like this?”
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Lincolnshire fund enters admin-sharing deal with West Yorks
Lincolnshire Pension Fund has teamed up with West Yorkshire Pension Fund on benefit administration in order to deliver cost savings, in the latest example of local authority collaboration.
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NewsRSPB sees 17.5% opt-out in 'mixed' AE response
The bird protection charity RSPB has revealed a 17.5 per cent opt-out rate since auto-enrolment in November, as smaller organisations start to push up the proportion of workers declining workplace saving.
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Opinion
Are smaller charities heading for a fall over AE implementation?
Concerns over the charity sector’s ability to implement auto-enrolment have been raised in a report that makes explicit the disparity between the sector’s overconfidence to carry out the reform and its ability to actually do so.
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Opinion
The key steps to the best annuity for your members
How do you ensure members get the right form of retirement income for them? Premier’s Ray Tang looks at the steps to ensure good member outcomes, in the latest Technical View.
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