All Pensions UK (formerly PLSA) articles – Page 11
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OpinionThe art of effecting change
Editorial: The Budget announcement brought changes welcomed and less welcomed by the industry, such as the tax on qualifying recognised overseas scheme transfers and the money purchase annual allowance, but it was the focus on the self-employed that might give a flavour of what is to come.
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FCA throws cold water on IA input ambitions
PLSA Investment Conference 2017: The Financial Conduct Authority’s director of strategy and competition Christopher Woolard has said he does not want to be bound by industry initiatives in making new rules for asset managers.
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NewsPLSA kick-starts year-long diversity debate to improve pensions
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association is moving into new territory by starting a year-long focus on diversity with the aim of achieving better pensions, but has restricted its efforts to gender questions.
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Opinion
Is it time for DC defaults to embrace ESG?
Large defined benefit funds and defined contribution mastertrusts have long been using their investments to engage with or divest from companies involved in controversial practices. Now, a renewed public focus on environmental, social and governance issues, as well as corporate reporting, could convince more to follow.
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Hollis: Bring invisible women into AE system
The UK’s pension system is failing “invisible women” who do not meet the auto-enrolment earnings threshold and are punished for leaving work to care for children, Labour peer Patricia Hollis has warned.
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Cost scrutiny intensifies as TTF calls for select committee inquiry
The Work and Pensions Select Committee has been asked to launch a fresh inquiry into charges levied on pension savings, as campaigners warned price inefficiencies reach far beyond investment costs.
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Select committee: Scare negligent employers into funding with 'nuclear' fines
The Work and Pensions Select Committee has called for “nuclear deterrent” fines – tripling the amount currently payable – to be levied against employers seen to be shirking pension responsibilities, in its report into defined benefit pensions.
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2017 AE review will ignore adequacy but include charge cap
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced the scope of its 2017 review of auto-enrolment, including a reconsideration of the charge cap on defined contribution default funds.
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OpinionPost-truths about 2016
Editorial: The year that is coming to an end might be remembered in the pensions industry as one of referendums and defined benefit battles.
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Ownership or nudge? How to make auto-escalation work
The pensions industry and government must instil a sense of “personal ownership” over pensions in currently underprepared members if auto-enrolment is to achieve its aims, pensions minister Richard Harrington has said.
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Increased contributions vital to continue AE success story
The real tests of auto-enrolment are still to come, one of the architects of the initiative has warned, as an adequacy report found many defined contribution-reliant members of Generation X are already beyond auto-enrolment’s help.
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OpinionPLSA: The cost of inaction cannot be ignored
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s Graham Vidler argues that action is needed to secure the future of defined benefit pension schemes.
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NewsCapital protection key as ABF introduces equities overlay
The Associated British Foods’ UK defined benefit pension scheme has implemented an equities derivative overlay strategy to give added risk protection to its substantial portfolio of growth assets, maintaining a strong allocation to equities.
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Schemes urged to look past 'Super Thursday' market movements
The FTSE 100 fell last week on the back of a High Court ruling that parliament must have a vote on the UK’s triggering of Article 50, while the Bank of England revised its inflation expectations upwards.
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FeaturesBritish Coal's green turn on payslips to net £400,000 a year
The British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme has opted to stop sending monthly paper payslips to its members from August 2017, saving the fund almost £400,000 a year.
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OpinionBringing pension schemes together
Editorial: The efforts made to outdo each other with yet another game, more champagne or an enormous plastic animal at the stand have reached a new level at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s Annual Conference this year.
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OpinionPLSA: RQM guides savers to quality at-retirement products
The Pension Quality Mark’s Matthew Doyle makes the case for clear guidance and signposting to quality at-retirement products.
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RQM: Driving up standards or duplicating regulations?
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association has launched its Retirement Quality Mark for drawdown, but some have questioned the need for the standards in their current form.
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CPI and RPI gap at largest for five years as schemes eye law change
The retail price index and consumer price index were the farthest apart they have been for five years in last month’s inflation figures, prompting debate that legislation could level the playing field for schemes using RPI for benefit increases.
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Opinion
The shape of things to come: Could robo-advice transform pensions?
Would you take pensions advice from a robot? Robo-advice may be the flavour of the month, but not everyone in the pensions industry is convinced the future is fintech.