All value for money articles – Page 2
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NewsOutlook 2025: The pensions industry’s wishlist for the new year
Pensions Expert spoke to six major industry groups to find out what they want to see happen in 2025, from the Pensions Review and the Pension Schemes Bill to trustee powers and improvements to member outcomes.
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OpinionA pension scheme consolidation wishlist
The Association of British Insurers’ Rob Yuille outlines the changes that are needed to make consolidation a success in the trust-based and contract-based worlds.
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OpinionHoping for clarity on Value for Money
The Society of Pension Professionals’ Brian McBride sets out the organisation’s views on how to improve the proposed Value for Money framework.
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NewsOpperman: Consolidation needs to be harder, better, faster, stronger
Former pensions minister Guy Opperman has called for workplace pensions consolidation to be accelerated and extended to include commercial providers and even regulators.
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NewsValue for Money plans not set in stone, say regulators
The FCA and TPR are open to changing their planned ‘red-amber-green’ model for the Value for Money framework as the consultation process continues.
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OpinionEditor's notes: Managing the 'Daily Mail' risk
Getting Value for Money right will take plenty of time, consideration and collaboration. Making sure it’s communicated properly can’t be ignored.
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OpinionPlanning a route to better DC outcomes
Why did the pension trustee cross the road? To catch a bus, but also to demonstrate attitudes to risk, as Maggie Rodger of the Association of Member Nominated Trustees explains.
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NewsTPR grows investment team and vows to ‘probe’ strategies
The Pensions Regulator has set out its expectations for trustees’ investment strategies and decision-making, as schemes face increased pressure to allocate to UK assets.
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NewsWhat TPR wants from Value for Money consultation
The regulator has called for industry input on measures of service quality and forward-looking performance metrics to build out its Value for Money framework.
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NewsIndustry casts doubt on elements of Value for Money framework
A traffic light approach to value for money risks oversimplifying, while ensuring alignment with the government’s productive finance agenda could prove difficult, say commentators.
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NewsRegulators propose ‘red-amber-green’ Value for Money framework
FCA and TPR set out approach to DC value assessments, covering investment performance, charges and service quality metrics.
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NewsTPR: Do better on decumulation
The regulator lays out seven challenges that lie between DC savers and a good decumulation outcome.
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NewsThe industry’s wishlist for the autumn statement
Pensions didn’t feature in the King’s Speech – what would the industry like from the autumn statement?
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NewsTPR's Delfas supports Mansion House reforms
Nausicaa Delfas, chief executive of The Pensions Regulator’s said the watchdog welcomed the government’s new package of pensions measures announced by the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt this week.
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NewsTPR: Smaller DC schemes urged to swot up on value for money assessments
Smaller defined contribution (DC) schemes, have been singled out as "failing to meet expectations on assessing value" by The Pensions Regulator (TPR).
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OpinionValue for money consultation is a welcome start to 2023
More work is needed to protect members suffering on retirement, says HSBC Tomorrow Master Trust chief executive Alison Hatcher.
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NewsRegulators fear savers will make ‘wrong decision’ with pensions info
On the go: The Financial Conduct Authority and the Pensions Regulator are worried that giving savers information about how their pension schemes are performing may lead to them making “the wrong decision”.
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NewsTrott: Underperforming schemes to ‘improve, consolidate or exit’
Pensions minister Laura Trott has said pension schemes that are underperforming will need to act and either “improve, consolidate or exit the market”.
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NewsPension schemes to disclose performance under VfM rules
Pensions schemes will be required to disclose investment performance, net of all costs, as part of the new value for money framework.