All Punter Southall articles – Page 7
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Opinion
What a 1% cap could mean for AE value
Price cap in, price cap out. Last week’s report from the Office of Fair Trading did not immediately recommend a limit on the amount auto-enrolled savers can be charged for investment and administration of their retirement savings, but the watchdog may return to the question in future.
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News
Whitbread: spike in non-eligible employees saving after AE
Whitbread has seen an increase in the number of employees that were not eligible for auto-enrolment joining its pension scheme since it began communicating the reform.
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FeaturesThe DC Debate – is fee push harming innovation?
This edition of our quarterly feature asks DC experts what is stifling investment innovation, and whether scheme, employer or provider is responsible for achieving good governance.
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News
Schemes grab chance to fireproof against inflation
Nearly half of pension fund trustees have incorporated longevity or swap contracts to tackle inflation risk, an upcoming survey will show, having benefited from favourable pricing last year to boost protection.
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NewsDC daily pricing blocking illiquid investments
Liquidity requirements for defined contribution schemes are hampering their investment returns and ability to compete with defined benefit plans on the replacement income provided in retirement, an institutional investor group has warned.
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Features
Countdown to improve admin with end of contracting out
With the abolition of contracting out on DC schemes just two months away, Anna Lyudvig looks at how schemes can use the reform to improve their administration.
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Features
Improve member knowledge, regulator warns on DC
Defined contribution schemes risk punishment by the Pensions Regulator if they fail to tell members the impact of contributions on their retirement. Ian Smith looks at how DHL and others are meeting the challenge.
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Features
British Steel launches nursery DC to manage cost
The £11.4bn scheme will close its defined benefit section to new entrants and introduce a money purchase scheme to manage the costs of auto-enrolment.
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Features
Regulator highlights DC failure over risk registers
The Pensions Regulator is planning to measure governance standards twice yearly after failing to increase the number of small schemes to have set up risk registers.
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News
SME schemes get low-cost derivative access
Around 340 mainly small and medium-sized schemes have adopted a system of asset-liability modelling, previously only affordable to much larger plans.