All Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) articles – Page 2
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OpinionNet surpluses: A paradigm shift for DB pensions
With rising interest rates leading to significant improvements in defined benefit scheme funding over the last year, policymakers face profound choices about the future of the regulatory regime.
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NewsProductive finance: Pension panacea or sticking plaster for UK plc?
Encouraging pension funds to deviate from standard asset classes is nothing new, but is the latest push to encourage productive finance likely to be embraced by the pensions industry, at a time when it has everything to lose, and not that much to gain?
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NewsDecumulation call for evidence: Communication is key if scheme members are to be more informed
Industry says DWP call for evidence to help savers make informed decisions was overdue but more work is needed to communicate any enhanced options to members.
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NewsLiving on your own in retirement is bad for your wealth
New research from Standard Life shows that single people need an additional £160,000 compared to pensioner couples who can share costs.
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NewsPensions awareness campaign back for its 10th year
Pensions Geeks has announced that its 2023 pensions awareness campaign will take place from 11th to 15th September 2023.
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OpinionA woman's right to a decent pension
There is only so much the pensions industry can take on when it comes to society's wider problems, although encouraging more of us to save into a pension is a start writes Pensions Expert's editor Samantha Downes.
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NewsAuto enrolment: Could removal of £10k trigger help low earners save more into a pension
A research report commissioned by the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) and carried out by the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) looked at whether removing the £10,000 auto enrolment earnings trigger could help the UK's low earners save more into their pension.
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NewsPension schemes urged to get on board with ABI/PLSA #pensionattention campaign
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) will team up again this September to call on the public to pay their pension some attention.
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NewsPensions industry: Week in brief
LGPS staff are concerned about resources, according to an PLSA survey: while Broadstone predicts a bumper second half of the year for buyouts: questions over the FCA's consumer duty and a £200m property deal between SLIP and PIC, here's the news you may have missed this week.
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NewsWhy auto enrolment only guarantees the most basic of retirement incomes
Even those who save the minimum amount into their pension for over 40 years will not have enough to secure the Pension and Lifetime Savings Association's (PLSA) retirement living standards ‘minimum’, ‘moderate’ or ‘comfortable’ retirement as a single pensioner.
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NewsDC pensions: Providers and regulators need to work on innovation
DC pensions providers, regulators and the wider pensions industry need to develop resources to help members extract more value from their savings, a report has found.
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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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NewsRetirement and poverty, Scottish Widows warns of growing generation gap
The life office and pensions provider has launched the National Retirement Forecast (NRF) which aims to provide "forensic analysis of the challenges faced by different demographics".
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NewsFCA's proposed London listing shake up might cause more market woes, PLSA
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launched a consultation last month over concerns the UK’s regime was too complicated and the capital was losing out to New York when it came to international companies wanting to list their shares.
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NewsLocal Government Pension Scheme: PLSA launches resources to help employers
TheBest Practice: A Guide for Employers Participating in the LGPS, has been launched to coincide with the PLSA’s annual Local Authority Conference, which is being held in Gloucestershire.
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OpinionFor the love of GMPs
Former Editor, Maria Espadinha, now a senior policy advisor at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, writes for Pensions Expert
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Pension dashboards programme further delayed
As reported by Pensions Expert on 29 May, the government has made an announcement, on pension dashboards, further delaying the programme to 31 October 2026.
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NewsPLSA offers pragmatic alternatives to politicians' ideas for UK growth
In recent months, the government, the opposition, the lord mayor of London and other lobbyists and policy wonks have floated various notions as to how pension funds – defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) – should invest their assets in order to boost growth in the UK’s economy.
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NewsPLSA Investment Conference 2023: Live blog
If you’re not up in Edinburgh for the PLSA’s annual investment conference then this is the next best thing. Stay tuned for latest updates and goings on.
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NewsDWP narrows down small pots solution to two options
The Department for Work and Pensions has narrowed down the solution to the small pots issue to either the creation of default consolidators or the introduction of pot-follows-member legislation.