All Pensions UK (formerly PLSA) articles – Page 13
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News
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.
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Features
Strathclyde joins antibiotics campaign as investors up engagement
The Strathclyde Pension Fund is one of 54 institutional investors that have launched an engagement campaign aimed at stopping overuse of antibiotics in the supply chains of corporations in the UK and US.
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Annuities gain ground on drawdown as savers seek income for life
The anticipated plundering of pension funds following the implementation of the freedom and choice reforms last April has failed to materialise, according to data from the Association of British Insurers.
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OpinionWould Brexit mean less red tape for UK schemes?
Analysis: The volume of European regulatory changes has radically increased the governance burden on UK pension schemes in recent years; voting to leave the European Union must be tempting for trustees keen to cut the red tape.
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OpinionGood guidance for good outcomes
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Associations’s Joanne Segars welcomes the government’s proposal for a single pensions guidance service, but says more needs to be done to ensure good outcomes for members.
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Three complex investment issues demystified
PLSA Investment Conference 2016: Three pensions professionals were each tasked with explaining a complex investment issue in five minutes, demonstrating how things like good value, credit or Brexit can be explained to members.
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PLSA launches DB taskforce as deficits spiral
PLSA Investment Conference 2016: While the combined deficit in the PPF 7800 index has reached £322.8bn, the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association said it has launched a taskforce to “tackle the problems faced by defined benefit pension schemes”.
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OpinionA pensions power struggle
Editorial: The chancellor has pulled another rabbit out of the red case. This time it’s a tame European breed: the ‘no change on pensions tax relief ahead of the referendum’ kind.
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NewsSchemes urged to prepare for bad investment outcomes
PLSA Investment Conference 2016: The question of what powers trustees have – if any – when things go wrong on the investment provider side received some surprising answers at the PLSA Investment Conference held in Edinburgh this week.
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NewsRPMI dedicates staff to cost investigation
PLSA Investment Conference: The Railways Pension Scheme has hired a full-time employee to investigate investment costs paid by the scheme, after discovering it was paying four times what it had thought.
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Opinion
Innovation within the charge cap
DC Investment Quarterly: Ever since defined contribution funds have had to demonstrate value for money to members, they have sought to drive up performance of the investment strategy while controlling volatility.
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OpinionA trustee’s duties in the era of freedom and choice
Nest Corporation’s Otto Thoresen seeks answers to the question of what the scope of trustee duties might be since the introduction of freedom and choice.
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LGPS meets first pooling landmark
The Local Government Pension Scheme submitted initial proposals for asset pooling last week, but talks between funds are ongoing as the scheme works to meet government benchmarks.