All Standard Life articles – Page 4
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News
Active debt management key to exploiting bond opportunities
Schemes hunting for cash flow in a record-low gilt yield environment are turning to corporate bonds, emerging markets and active management of their debt portfolios, a study has revealed.
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FAMR recommendations seek to shore up guidance gap
HM Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority have released a raft of recommendations in the bodies’ review of the financial advice market, but industry commentators have said “tighter and more ambitious timescales” are required to make the pensions dashboard a reality.
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DC admin to form heart of engagement efforts, experts say
Leadership of DC summit: Personalised communication and raising engagement levels over time will be a critical part of successful scheme administration in the new defined contribution environment, industry experts have said.
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Features
Employers ensure AMD ban does not drive up active member fees
Employers have managed to keep active scheme member fees steady while scrapping higher charges for deferred members, after one provider agreed to swallow the cost of next year’s ban.
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NewsCharity bears brunt of AE contributions
Action for Children has said it chose to place a greater burden on itself than employees when setting its auto-enrolment contribution levels, in a drive to create fairness.
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Features
Adnams and Jacobs compensation cases highlight admin risk
Members of the Adnams and Jacobs Engineering schemes have been awarded compensation for administration errors. Pippa Stephens and Ian Smith analyse how monitoring third parties could help schemes manage this risk.
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Features
M&S cost savings to spur mastertrust copycats
Owen Walker analyses M&S’s mastertrust structure, which the retailer will set up to mitigate the administration costs associated with auto-enrolment
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Features
Thomas Miller confronts volatility with DC default design
Owen Walker discovers how the Thomas Miller pension scheme introduced absolute return funds to its defined contribution (DC) default option to provide members with a better savings experience.
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Centrica derisks with 15% switch to bonds
As global stock markets crash, Pippa Stephens looks at how some schemes have derisked through dramatic moves out of equities and into bonds.
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