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In DepthIn Depth: How the FCA will regulate pensions over the next five years
The financial services watchdog has published its latest five-year strategy, pledging to become a more flexible, predictable and efficient organisation.
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OpinionPension transfers: A year of lessons and the road ahead
People’s Partnership CEO Patrick Heath-Lay addresses the substantial problems that the industry faces regarding pension transfers.
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OpinionA decade of ‘freedom and choice’: Time to rethink advice provision
Glyn Bradley of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries looks back on a decade of pension freedoms and ahead to how we can make the policy work better for members.
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NewsFCA proposes ‘targeted support’ for vulnerable pension savers
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is considering giving pension providers the ability to provide “targeted support” to certain groups of people to help them make decisions about their retirement savings.
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NewsRegulators urged to collaborate on ‘targeted support’ for DC savers
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has called for trust-based defined contribution pension schemes to be included in proposals to allow “targeted support” for savers.
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OpinionAdvice or guidance? The challenges facing trustees
George Ritchie of the Association of British Insurers discusses the complex issues arising from the review of the advice-guidance boundary.
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NewsGet better at engaging – or else, warns UK’s largest pension provider
If providers keep failing to help customers engage with retirement, they will fall foul of consumer duty, warns Andy Briggs
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NewsDB transfer compensation rates fall, but savers won’t lose out
Analysis from actuarial consultancy OAC, part of the Broadstone Group, suggests that many people who had been badly advised to transfer out of their defined benefit (DB) pension, may now receive significantly less compensation.
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OpinionAnnuities for the DC generation
Standard Life’s Claire Altman considers the future of annuities for the DC generation, arguing that in future savers will look for ‘blended’ solutions.
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OpinionRome wasn’t built in a day: Neither is a pension
Encouraging scheme members to contribute more into their pension means empowering them to understand the implications of that increase, argues Ashley Staples.
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NewsMid-life MOT: DWP's online pensions and savings resource goes live
The Department for Work and Pensions has launched its online midlife MOT.
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NewsDB schemes: Surge in retirement support for members says Aon
Defined benefit (DB) schemes are giving their members more information and support than ever when making key retirement decisions.
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OpinionTo DC or CDC. That is the question…
DB pensions – and the guaranteed retirement income they bring – are well and truly a thing of the past, with a mere circa 5,000 left in the UK,most of which are closed to new members.
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NewsFCA's consumer duty reforms will shake up the pensions industry
Are companies ready for the biggest reform in financial services since 2012?
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NewsOne in six savers don't know where to access pensions advice
The workplace can play a part in helping plug the pensions advice gap, as over a quarter of over 55s admit eschewing any type of support.
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NewsFCA launches retirement income advice review
On the go: The Financial Conduct Authority is to review the level of advice consumers are receiving from independent financial advisers on meeting their income needs in retirement.
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NewsMerseyside Pension Fund appoints new adviser
On the go: The £10.4bn Merseyside Pension Fund has appointed Redington to act as its strategic investment adviser.
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NewsDB schemes mull legal action against LDI asset managers
Defined benefit schemes that suffered losses as a result of the recent market volatility are considering bringing legal claims against their asset managers and advisers, legal experts have warned.
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NewsDavid Fairs leaves TPR to ‘pursue new challenges’
On the go: David Fairs is leaving his role as executive director of regulatory policy, analysis and advice at the Pensions Regulator in March this year.
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OpinionLDI turbulence – the case for independent oversight
In times of crisis, pension funds’ investment strategies are put to the test – and 2022 has hardly been short of crises.