All Punter Southall articles – Page 7

  • Opinion

    What a 1% cap could mean for AE value

    2013-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Price cap in, price cap out. Last week’s report from the Office of Fair Trading did not immediately recommend a limit on the amount auto-enrolled savers can be charged for investment and administration of their retirement savings, but the watchdog may return to the question in future.

  • News

    Whitbread: spike in non-eligible employees saving after AE

    2013-09-13T00:00:00Z

    Whitbread has seen an increase in the number of employees that were not eligible for auto-enrolment joining its pension scheme since it began communicating the reform.

  • Getty
    Features

    The DC Debate – is fee push harming innovation?

    2013-06-18T00:00:00Z

    This edition of our quarterly feature asks DC experts what is stifling investment innovation, and whether scheme, employer or provider is responsible for achieving good governance.

  • News

    Schemes grab chance to fireproof against inflation

    2013-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Nearly half of pension fund trustees have incorporated longevity or swap contracts to tackle inflation risk, an upcoming survey will show, having benefited from favourable pricing last year to boost protection.

  • FT
    News

    DC daily pricing blocking illiquid investments

    2013-05-17T00:00:00Z

    Liquidity requirements for defined contribution schemes are hampering their investment returns and ability to compete with defined benefit plans on the replacement income provided in retirement, an institutional investor group has warned.  

  • Features

    Countdown to improve admin with end of contracting out

    2012-12-27T00:00:00Z

    With the abolition of contracting out on DC schemes just two months away, Anna Lyudvig looks at how schemes can use the reform to improve their administration.

  • Features

    Improve member knowledge, regulator warns on DC

    2012-12-22T00:00:00Z

    Defined contribution schemes risk punishment by the Pensions Regulator if they fail to tell members the impact of contributions on their retirement. Ian Smith looks at how DHL and others are meeting the challenge.

  • Features

    British Steel launches nursery DC to manage cost

    2012-12-21T00:00:00Z

    British Steel Pension Scheme will close its defined benefit section and launch a defined contribution arrangement to make the scheme more sustainable and manage the costs associated with auto-enrolment.

  • Features

    Regulator highlights DC failure over risk registers

    2012-12-19T00:00:00Z

    The Pensions Regulator is planning to measure governance standards twice yearly after failing to increase the number of small schemes to have set up risk registers.

  • News

    SME schemes get low-cost derivative access

    2012-02-23T00:00:00Z

    Around 340 mainly small and medium-sized schemes have adopted a system of asset-liability modelling, previously only affordable to much larger plans.