All The Pensions Regulator (TPR) articles – Page 53
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Now Pensions bottom of default fund league tables
Now Pensions has the worst performing default fund of any major defined contribution provider, according to a new report by product review company Defaqto.
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Opinion
Working for the future of savers and pensions
Pensions Expert readers know, better than most, just how complex pensions policy can be and just how much change there has been over the past five years.
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Opinion
Admit mistakes and encourage discussion to prevent repetition
Trustee decision-making has come under increased scrutiny in recent years, but there are plenty of ways in which trustees can avoid errors, and prevent the same mistakes from happening again.
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Select committee launches inquiry into DB white paper
The Work and Pensions Committee has launched an inquiry into the government's recent white paper on defined benefit security and sustainability, asking how the proposed measures are likely to be most effective and whether legislation should be fast-tracked.
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Opinion
Is ESG on course to become the norm in DC defaults?
Late last year the UK government said it was “minded” to make pension fund trustees produce environmental, social and governance statements.
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Opinion
What could we expect from the regulators’ joint pension strategy?
The Pensions Regulator and the Financial Conduct Authority are currently consulting on their joint strategy for regulating the pensions and retirement income sector.
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TPR fires warning shot over dividend to DRC balance
Defined benefit trustees and sponsoring employers should act sooner rather than later to secure members' pensions, the Pensions Regulator has said in its latest annual funding statement, and warned against prioritising dividends.
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Default drawdown tops select committee's at-retirement wishlist
Providers of drawdown products should be required to develop charge-capped default products to help disengaged savers make their pension last, the Work and Pensions Committee has recommended.
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TPR to prosecute recruitment firm
The Pensions Regulator is to prosecute recruitment company Workchain Ltd and seven of its directors and staff for unauthorised access to a computer programme. They are accused of logging into the company pension scheme using employees' details to opt them out of the scheme.
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TPR raises bar with mastertrust code of practice
A new authorisation code requiring mastertrusts to demonstrate their financial sustainability may force a number of providers from the market, experts have speculated.
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Nortel reaches PPF-plus after nine years of 'scorched earth'
The UK Nortel Pension Scheme has retrieved enough assets from the insolvency of its communications giant parent to buy out benefits at a level above that guaranteed by the Pension Protection Fund.
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Opinion
DB white paper generates as many questions as answers
The Pensions Regulator wants to be clearer, quicker and tougher. The white paper has come back with a batch of proposed new powers that read, at first, more like fast and furious.
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Opinion
21st Century Trusteeship – managing advisers and service providers
We have been running our 21 Century Trusteeship programme for several months, focusing on basic areas of trusteeship to drive up standards in pension schemes.
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The Pension SuperFund: Benevolent disruptor or danger to members?
If assembling a star-studded team of executives is enough to get a radical new pensions proposition off the ground, Edi Truell might already have done enough to disrupt the UK defined benefit sector.
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Opinion
Superfund – shoot first
Editorial: The Department for Work and Pensions has kept its word with the publication of its highly anticipated white paper, even managing to deliver it ahead of its spring target.
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PwC probed on Carillion fees and conflicts
MPs have grilled PwC partners on fees and the safeguards the accountancy firm put in place to prevent conflicts of interest arising from its various roles regarding collapsed contractor Carillion.
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Opinion
Is ESG on course to become the norm in DC defaults?
High profile corporate governance failures, campaigns against the use of plastics, and US pension funds criticised for holding gun manufacturers after the latest school shooting – a powerful combination of recent events has pushed environmental, social and governance investing further up the institutional agenda.
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TPR and FCA seek input for joint strategy
The Pensions Regulator and the Financial Conduct Authority are jointly calling for input on regulating the pensions and retirement sector.
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Fines for DB negligence leave industry split
Employers who wilfully or recklessly put their defined benefit pension schemes at risk are in the firing line of new punitive fines announced in a government policy statement released on Monday.
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Reuters steps up member comms during sponsor M&A
Trustees of the defined benefit schemes of Thomson Reuters have been updating members about the agreed sale of part of the business, as experts stress the fine line between saying too much or too little about a deal.