All Opinion articles – Page 110
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Audits can speed up AE’s legal sign-off
Sackers’ Ferdinand Lovett proposes a four-stage audit so companies ensure they get the best from auto-enrolment legal advice.
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Editorial: Freedom from want
The reaction to last week’s TUC report on state pension reform understandably focused on the results which, the union held, supported its claim that £144 a week would leave the “vast majority of people” worse off.
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The cost obsession is creating a false dichotomy
For the pension savers brought on through auto-enrolment, it is too simplistic to equate lower-cost funds with good value, argues Jupiter’s Charlie Crole in the latest Informed Comment.
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Editorial: Speak softly and carry a big stick
We may have taken our annual print break over the past three weeks, but online at pensionsweek.com we’ve ensured our summer holiday readers had plenty to browse through.
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Why pension schemes must act to correct poor data
Bad record-keeping is a blight on the industry and schemes must work with their administrators to meet the challenge, argues Spence & Partners’ Neil Copeland in the latest Industry view.
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Crucial retirement tools to benefit your members
The Annuity Bureau’s Richard Williams sets out the tools and techniques that schemes and employers can use to get value for their scheme members at retirement, in the latest Technical View.
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Why we must fight to keep AE opt-outs low
Most employees of large companies are sticking with pensions. Morten Nilsson from Now Pensions comments on the scheme’s own low rates and why they are not the be-all and end-all, in the latest Informed Comment.
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Old does not necessarily mean vulnerable for Pies
It is in no one’s interest to make unsuitable pension increase exchange offers, and they are easily avoided, argues JLT Wealth Management’s Jonathon Webb in the latest edition of Informed Comment.
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Steps to dynamically reduce your equity risk
Intech’s David Schofield compares active and passive approaches to managing the impact of investment volatility on schemes’ portfolios, in the latest edition of Technical View.
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Why trustees should be paid, and how much
Spence & Partners’ Marian Elliott analyses the growing burden of the trustee role, and argues that those willing to take it up should be paid, in the latest edition of Informed Comment.
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How to build a SIP for contract-based DC
Muse Advisory’s Mark Hodgkinson sets out the advantage of a statement of investment principles for DC schemes, and what it might comprise, in the latest Technical View.
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Editorial: Put fraud firmly in the shade
As the mercury rose last week, attention on pension fraudsters also hotted up as the regulator brought a liberation case to the High Court.
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Editorial: The politics of scale
Another week, another few tweaks to the shape of the workplace pensions market.
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How to build the ideal trustee board for members
Independent Trustee Services’ Peter Askins considers how schemes can build the perfect trustee board to suit their membership, in this edition of Technical View.
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Why pooling local govt funds would boost fees battle
Cutting investment costs should be an overriding focus for schemes, and pooling local authority funds could help this quest, argues SCM Private’s Gina Miller in the latest edition of Informed Comment.
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Editorial: The metaphysics of quality
Last week, the government issued a call for evidence on quality standards in defined contribution schemes.
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Managing your four toughest infrastructure debt risks
BlackRock’s Chris Wrenn identifies the four main risks of infrastructure debt and how schemes hungry for higher yields should be managing them, in the latest edition of Technical View.
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Sea change needed to lift contract governance to trust standards
Governance committees could soon be mandatory for contract-based schemes, but will still bear weak comparison with trustee boards, argues Gordons’ Ruth Bamforth in this edition of Informed Comment.
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Why pounds-and-pence charges are not enough
Communication consultancy AHC’s Karen Partridge explains why “total transparency about charges” is a good first step to transparency, but only a first step, in the first edition of Informed Comment.
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Editorial: Time to review your auto-enrolment spend?
The spending review seems to have passed by without directly impacting workplace pension schemes.