All The Pensions Regulator (TPR) articles – Page 52
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Titcomb to leave the Pensions Regulator
On the go: Chief executive Lesley Titcomb will be leaving the Pensions Regulator at the end of her four-year contract in February 2019.
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Opinion
CMA investigation: Prepare for positive change
The Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation into the UK’s investment consultants and fiduciary managers, launched last autumn, has the potential to drive seismic change.
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Opinion
Blowing the whistle on the secret pension offenders
They hide in plain sight, looking respectable to the outside world but denying their workers their legal rights.
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Opinion
How can schemes assess employer covenant strength?
Darren Redmayne chuckles good-naturedly, at what must be the thousandth time a journalist has asked whether the FTSE 100’s recently revealed accounting surplus means their defined benefit pension problems have gone away.
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TPR levies first fine on professional trustee
On the go: The regulator has disclosed that it has imposed a £3,000 fine against a professional trustee for failing to update their scheme’s register with news of their appointment.
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Regulator threatens greater discipline over poor admin
The number of public service pension schemes disclosing inadequate processes for monitoring data accuracy and completeness has risen, as the Pensions Regulator pledges to clamp down on those falling below the standards it expects.
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Select committees question regulator’s ambition on DB
On the go: The Pensions Regulator’s commitment to engaging proactively with poorly funded defined benefit schemes and their employers has been called into question by two parliamentary select committees, in a stinging letter that discusses the future of chief executive Lesley Titcomb.
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Box Clever judgment sees scheme inch closer to ITV funding
The Pensions Regulator was right to seek to impose a financial support direction on ITV in relation to the Box Clever defined benefit pension scheme, according to a court judgment published on Friday.
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Opinion
ESG investing has little to do with ethics
Environmental, social and governance factors, commonly known as ESG factors, have sparked debate in the pensions world for many years and given rise to much confusion.
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Opinion
Carillion's post-mortem
It is not unusual for Work and Pensions Committee chair Frank Field to show off an impressive vocabulary when launching a salvo against political and personal foes. But even by his standards, the imagery used to put to bed the failed outsourcer Carillion has taken a turn for the macabre.
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Regulator comes out on top in Box Clever case
On the go: The Pensions Regulator was right to seek to impose a financial support direction on ITV in relation to the Box Clever defined benefit pension scheme, according to a court judgement published on Friday.
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Blocking dodgy transfers could stop scams, say trustees
Only a restriction of the statutory right to transfer will end pension scams, the Pensions Regulator’s leading trustee company for appointments to irregular schemes has said, as it reported a marked increase in the number of cases dealt with in recent months.
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Regulator rebuked for 'feeble' response to Carillion underfunding
Carillion’s corporate culture was at the heart of the contractor’s collapse, MPs have concluded, but the Pensions Regulator has also come under fire for “failing in all its objectives” regarding the company’s pension funds.
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Brewery and chair plead guilty in regulator's s72 case
Samuel Smith Old Brewery and its chairman Humphrey Smith have pleaded guilty to failing to provide information about its schemes to the Pensions Regulator.
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TPR plan welcomed, but concerns remain over consistency
The industry has welcomed the Pensions Regulator's new corporate plan, which outlines how it plans to become “clearer, quicker and tougher”, but concerns remain over consistency and the watchdog's focus on smaller schemes.
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Opinion
Regulator must work with industry on professional trustee standards
Recent consultation exercises have shown that trusteeship has become increasingly segmented by the standards expected of those who fulfil the role.
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TPR to seize assets of rogue employers
The Pensions Regulator has said it will appoint High Court Enforcement Officers to seize assets of employers who do not pay a pension fine.
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Opinion
Expect as few as 15 mastertrusts within five years
The consensus in the pensions industry is that the mastertrust market is about to start shrinking – how quickly and to what extent is open to debate, but in the long run this can only be good for members.
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Salvus snaps up Complete in £7m mastertrust consolidation deal
Salvus Master Trust has unveiled plans to acquire the members and assets of the £7m Complete Master Trust, as the sector’s consolidation drive begins to gather pace.
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Regulator to prosecute brewery for failing to provide financial info
The Pensions Regulator is to prosecute Samuel Smith Old Brewery and company chairman Humphrey Smith for failing to provide information and documents required for an ongoing investigation.