All Opinion articles – Page 109
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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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Editorial: Where is the AE contribution tipping point?
Pressure is growing on the minimum auto-enrolment contribution rates.
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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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Not all schemes should resist equities’ ‘fatal attraction’
In this week’s Informed Comment, Jupiter’s Charlie Crole and Ian McVeigh ask whether UK schemes’ jettisoning of the stock market has gone too far, and which schemes could still benefit.
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Editorial: Building understanding
It was about the time that Steve Webb started rapping and holding up sandwich bags that I reflected on what I had learnt at the NAPF conference.
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PPF: How we hunt for value on legal advice
The PPF’s David Taylor explains how its refreshed legal panel will help to improve value for the fund’s almost 200,000 members.
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How to manage your scheme’s payment error risk
Aon Hewitt’s June Grant takes us step by step through the common errors in overpayment and underpayment cases and how schemes can avoid them, in the latest edition of Technical View.
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Why schemes should not exclude investment in payday lenders
Schemes that screen out companies on ethical grounds risk breaching their legal fiduciary duty to steward members’ assets, argues DLA Piper’s Tamara Calvert in the latest Informed Comment.
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A guide to the PPF's time-saving provider panels
The Pension Protection Fund is beefing up. Its latest unveiling has revealed its revamped legal panel – the law firms that will advise the growing fund on insolvency and corporate matters.
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Pension schemes take advantage of broader credit opportunities
Market volatility and unreliability have forced schemes to consider employing a multi-asset credit manager to ensure decent diversification.
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Schemes make tackling uncertainty a priority
Strip away the complexity and at the heart of investing lies a simple concept: the reward for putting capital into a risky asset is to receive higher returns than opting for the safe bet.
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Why minimum AE contributions are not enough
Contributions will need to exceed the legislative minimum to achieve a suitable retirement, but that does not mean it should be raised, argues The People’s Pension’s Jamie Fiveash in this Informed Comment.
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LPFA emphasises quant and beta strategies in investment outlook
The London Pensions Fund Authority is preparing for a new era of investment. The £4.7bn scheme hired Alex Gracian as chief investment officer in October last year and the wind of change has not stopped blowing since.
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Five questions to get value on manager fees
In this week’s Technical View, Barnett Waddingham’s Rod Goodyer explores how schemes can manage their investment fees.
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Volatility sends investors on global hunt for returns
Volatile capital markets have led to a dichotomy in defined benefit pension scheme asset allocation.
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Honesty needed on impact of Scottish independence
Pensions and savings are increasingly central to Scotland’s independence debate. So its devolved government’s much-trailed pensions paper was eagerly anticipated.
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OpinionBA scheme inserts murder exemption into rules
The New Airways Pension Scheme has made an amendment to its scheme rules to be able to deny benefits to a member’s spouse or dependant who is guilty of that member’s murder.
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Editorial: Nothing new under the sun
Does an investment strategy need to be new to be newsworthy? Is an old investment strategy applied to a new asset class worth reporting?
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Managing in a recovery
Georgina Taylor from Invesco Perpetual looks at how a multi-asset investment strategy might handle a developed market recovery.
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Why bulk derisking is the answer for almost all schemes
Towers Watson’s Ian Aley argues “almost every pension scheme” would benefit from buy-in or buyout, and explains how to take advantage of the current funding climate, in the latest Informed Comment.