All Steve Webb articles – Page 12
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Opinion
Editorial: Putting a lid on it
The debate about the proposed charging cap came to a head last week as the government’s consultation on the changes closed.
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News
How defined ambition could affect your scheme
Government has outlined proposed legislative modifications to the pensions system including changes to decumulation rules and daily pricing requirements, which could impact current defined contribution and defined benefit schemes.
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Opinion
Editorial: On the threshing floor
Steve Webb has drawn a line in the sand. Or rather, three lines in the sand.
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Opinion
Why I’m optimistic on the future of defined ambition
In this week’s Informed Comment, Barnett Waddingham’s Nick Griggs looks at the two broad options for a risk-sharing middle way between defined benefit and defined contribution.
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News
United Utilities: charge cap could shield members
United Utilities' pension manager has voiced support for a cap on fees as it would protect default fund members from the decisions of their smaller and potentially less well-informed employers.
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Opinion
How SMEs can deal with a capacity squeeze
Despite regulators and advisers all compelling smaller companies to take early action, many may have left it too late to bag the industry’s best AE providers.
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News
Regulator: liberation fraud more sophisticated threat
News analysis: Pension liberation fraud has become more sophisticated, according to the Pensions Regulator, which is now targeting specific liberation models in a bid to slow down the pace of fraudulent activity.
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News
CDC working group studies Dutch and Swedish schemes
News analysis: The government’s collective defined contribution working group has studied European models to potentially bring to the UK, but pension professionals have questioned employer appetite for the benefit structure.
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News
SPC: Pot-follows-member a 'breeding ground' for fraud
The government’s pot-follows-member proposals threaten to “overstretch” the industry and expose members to greater risk of pension liberation fraud, if introduced at the peak of auto-enrolment in 2014, the Society of Pension Consultants has warned.
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FeaturesWebb on AE challenges for medium schemes
Video: Pensions minister Steve Webb discusses with Ian Smith the auto-enrolment delays and what should be top of the agenda for medium-sized employers (5:39).
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FeaturesAxa and ITV latest to face ETV/Pie governance risk
As pensions minister Steve Webb orders a review of controversial derisking exercises, Owen Walker discovers how Axa and ITV are currently approaching them.
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Features
Scheme perspective: Engaging younger members
Tailored, online communication and flexible saving options will engage younger members, according to scheme managers.
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Features
Managers tussle with growing CPI complexity
As Unison considers joining the public sector juridical review of the RPI-CPI shift, schemes face growing fairness and practical challenges on amending benefits, lawyers have warned.
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Features
Are ETVs always inappropriate? Ask a BA pilot
The pensions minister is wrong in condemning schemes for offering cash incentives for defined benefit (DB) members to switch to defined contribution (DC) plans.
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Features
Schemes called to engage sponsors over s75 debt
With the government set to work more flexibility into section 75 debt obligations, schemes have been urged to monitor how sponsors take advantage of legislative relaxations.
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Features
Trustees use discretion on gender-reassignment
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has created a team to deal with transsexual people entitled to added state pension after they undertook gender reassignment before 2005 legislation.
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News
Ease of opt-out will be Nest’s USP
The National Employment Savings Trust (Nest) is close to finalising an opt-out process it believes will overcome its limited success in winning big employer clients.