All Opinion articles – Page 101
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Opinion
Webb makes bid to secure legacy with CDC
This week’s Queen’s Speech will bring about further reforms to the pensions’ landscape focusing on collective defined contribution proposals, according to reports.
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OpinionEditorial: Future glories
Many congratulations to all the winners of this year's 15th annual Pension and Investment Provider Awards, and thank you to all who came to the evening at the Sheraton Park Lane on May 21.
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OpinionThe cases for and against Labour's plan to extend auto-enrolment
Editor's blog: Labour's former shadow pensions minister Rachel Reeves, now shadow work and pensions secretary, has made the opposition's most substantial pledge yet on workplace pensions – to reduce the lower eligibility threshold from £10,000 to £5,772.
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Guess who? The best shots from #PIPA2014
We've cherry-picked a few of the shots from last week's 15th annual Pension and Investment Provider Awards at the Sheraton Park Lane.
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ESG is about long-term performance, not arbitrary screening
WHEB’s George Latham argues against those who reduce environmental, social and governance analysis to merely screening of investments, in the latest edition of Technical Comment.
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Why you shouldn’t sit on your hands waiting for a rate rise
Talking head: Redington’s Rob Gardner warns of the significant risk and complexity created by rate uncertainty, and how pension funds can get the right infrastructure in place.
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How to predict member outcomes in the post-Budget world
The 2014 Budget gave pensions savers and plans considerable new flexibility in arranging their retirement incomes.
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OpinionEditorial: Derisked out of pocket
The trend away from equities is inevitable for many schemes, making it a matter of when, not if, they increase their bond holdings to reduce risk and cover a maturing membership.
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Pension and Investment Provider Awards 2014: the winners
Pensions Expert can announce the winners of the 15th annual Pension and Investment Provider Awards.
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Opinion
PIPA 2014 in tweets: to the victors, the spoils
The best of the tweets from the victors and the rest at the 2014 Pension and Investment Provider Awards. For many more search #pipa2014.
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Regulator's corporate plan: AE, funding, and trustee training
The Pensions Regulator has laid out its corporate plan for the next three years, in which it sets out plans to review its approach to ensuring high standards of governance and administration for schemes. It will also seek to improve the knowledge and understanding of trustees.
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Why bullish equity markets won’t dent DGF appetite
Insight’s Steve Waddington argues pension schemes will not be lured away from multi-asset funds back to greater equity allocations by stronger market performance, in the latest edition of Informed Comment.
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OpinionThe DC Debate – judging the impact of the saver's Budget
This quarter's debate of the crucial issues facing defined contribution scheme managers and trustees evaluates the fallout of the 2014 Budget, as well as the pensions minister's latest comment on tax relief.
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Regulator: Where DC schemes are failing legal minimum
Talking head: The Pensions Regulator’s Andrew Warwick-Thompson looks at the results of the watchdog’s latest governance survey, and highlights where schemes are particularly falling short.
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How to engage your deferred members
In the latest edition of Technical Comment, Zurich’s Paul Allen sets out a checklist for how schemes can try to keep scheme members engaged in their retirement saving once they have left the sponsoring employer.
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NAPF endorses secondary property investments
Sometimes its good to know you are ahead of the crowd. This week we published our supplement – The Specialist – on property and real assets. One theme running through the edition was the growth of secondary property investments among UK schemes.
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Opinion
Regulator makes latest bid for transparency in case decisions
The Pensions Regulator has issued a six-week consultation on the procedure it follows in cases where decisions are made by the executive arm of the regulator.
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OpinionBoth sides declare triumph after National Express resolution defeated
Shareholders have voted against a resolution backed by UK schemes at National Express Group's annual general meeting this week, with spokespeople on both sides of the issue claiming victory.
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OpinionEditorial: Finding the tipping point
When will institutional investor sentiment towards Africa pass the tipping point from outside bet to portfolio mainstay?
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Webb: we will enable risk-sharing to meet members' certainty demand
Our programme of pensions reform is gathering momentum, but there is more to come.