Dashboards news archive – Page 10
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PodcastsPodcast: Arguments for DC consolidation stronger than for DB
Podcast: The pace of defined contribution consolidation could accelerate on the other side of the coronavirus pandemic, but mergers are a less obvious boon for define benefit, say Squire Patton Boggs partner Kirsty Bartlett and Hadassah Shulman, senior associate at Taylor Wessing.
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DWP launches working group to tackle small pots problem
On the go: The Department for Work and Pensions has launched a working group in collaboration with industry to propose solutions to the challenges posed by small pots.
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Mercer launches DB master trust as demand for consolidation increases
Mercer has launched a new defined benefit master trust promising sponsors enhanced governance and economies of scale, amid an accelerating trend towards consolidation and outsourced solutions, with pensions minister Guy Opperman stating that “bigger is better”.
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McCloud to delay LGPS progress on pensions dashboards
The McCloud reform will create challenges for Local Government Pension Scheme funds to provide information for the pensions dashboards, with a delay that could take up to three years.
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Master trusts to face cost challenges in years ahead
The fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic is only the latest in a long line of structural challenges the master trust industry must face in coming years, according to a new report from the Pensions Policy Institute.
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Calls for government to clarify dashboard data standards
On the go: The government is facing growing calls to “come clean” about what data is required from pension schemes and providers for the pensions dashboard so that the industry can prepare properly, following conflicting reports.
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Govt’s ‘landmark’ pensions bill proceeds to Commons
On the go: The pension schemes bill, which includes rules for pension dashboards and new powers for the Pension Regulator, has cleared its first hurdle in the House of Lords.
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Volunteer schemes and providers to test pensions dashboards
On the go: The Pensions Dashboards Programme is planning to start extensive testing with individuals, dashboard providers, and volunteer pension providers and schemes, after it publishes a first version of the pensions dashboards data standards this autumn.
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Lords back exclusion of financial transactions from dashboards
On the go: Peers in the House of Lords have shown their support for the exclusion of all financial transactions, such as the transfer of assets, from the pensions dashboard in order to protect savers from scams.
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Peers push for restriction on commercial dashboards
On the go: Labour peers are pushing for an amendment to the pension schemes bill that will see a 12-month restriction placed on providers looking to operate their own pensions dashboards.
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Minister questions schemes on dashboard data readiness
UK pension schemes are being asked by the pensions minister to report on the readiness of their data for the dashboards project, but specialists argue the lack of legislation and data standards could make it difficult to obtain accurate responses.
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Maps prioritises dashboards delivery
On the go: The Money and Pensions Service is increasing its focus on pensions dashboards as a way to deliver for customers, according to its new business plan.
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After a fine innings at BW, McLean still wants to bat
A pension legend, Malcolm McLean has just stepped down as a senior consultant with Barnett Waddingham. He has received countless gongs, culminating in an OBE and two awards for outstanding achievement, but as a modest man he does not trumpet such fripperies.
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OpinionIndustry must not be defeatist on dashboards
Last year, I attended an event discussing the biggest challenges facing the UK pensions industry, and one topic kept coming up.
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DB schemes to face major data exercise for dashboards
New requirements to translate defined benefit pensions into an annual income in today’s terms could mean trustees and administrators face a major data exercise to comply with the pensions dashboards, according to experts.
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Pension bill progress halted due to emergency health laws
On the go: Progress on the pension schemes bill has come to a halt following the government’s commitment to hurry through emergency health legislation to combat the effects of coronavirus.
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Maps refuses to give public dashboard launch date
On the go: The chair of the Money and Pensions Service has declined to give a launch date for the public pensions dashboard, since there are too many variables to be considered at this time.
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Schemes unable to handle member information requests
On the go: Testing of pension schemes and providers' ability to meet savers' requests for information about their benefits has uncovered a litany of failings.
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Maps to survey schemes on dashboard challenges
On the go: The Money and Pensions Service has commissioned qualitative research to understand the challenges pension schemes face with providing data for the pensions dashboards.
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Only six in 10 pensions to be located by dashboards
On the go: Savers may only be able to locate six out of ten pension pots when pension dashboards are launched unless the industry starts to improve data quality, PensionBee has warned.