All Pensions UK (formerly PLSA) articles – Page 12
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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.
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Opinion
LPP: Pensions are not in dire straits
Susan Martin from the Local Pensions Partnership makes the case for reassuring members about the industry’s robustness amid media doom and gloom.
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OpinionWaiting for the sunshine: The challenges facing DB
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s Graham Vidler sets out the difficulty facing defined benefit schemes following Brexit, and explains how the PLSA will work to help the industry weather the turbulence that has followed the vote.
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OpinionLive from the PLSA local authority conference 2016
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s Graham Vidler explains why the needs of local pension boards and participating employers in the Local Government Pension Scheme need to be addressed.
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Features
GMP top priority this year but trustees could be missing the bigger picture
Respondents to consultancy Capita’s ‘Pension scheme insight report’ cited guaranteed minimum pension reconciliation, member communications and derisking as their main concerns for 2016, but experts say there are more acute challenges that schemes fail to address.
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NewsEiopa opts for standardised risk framework
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority has advocated the creation of a standardised framework for risk assessment and transparency in EU pension funds, quashing long-running fears of a shift to more stringent solvency funding requirements.