All The Pensions Regulator (TPR) articles – Page 53
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Opinion
Is ESG on course to become the norm in DC defaults?
Late last year the UK government said it was “minded” to make pension fund trustees produce environmental, social and governance statements.
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OpinionWhat could we expect from the regulators’ joint pension strategy?
The Pensions Regulator and the Financial Conduct Authority are currently consulting on their joint strategy for regulating the pensions and retirement income sector.
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News
TPR fires warning shot over dividend to DRC balance
Defined benefit trustees and sponsoring employers should act sooner rather than later to secure members' pensions, the Pensions Regulator has said in its latest annual funding statement, and warned against prioritising dividends.
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News
Default drawdown tops select committee's at-retirement wishlist
Providers of drawdown products should be required to develop charge-capped default products to help disengaged savers make their pension last, the Work and Pensions Committee has recommended.
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TPR to prosecute recruitment firm
The Pensions Regulator is to prosecute recruitment company Workchain Ltd and seven of its directors and staff for unauthorised access to a computer programme. They are accused of logging into the company pension scheme using employees' details to opt them out of the scheme.
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News
TPR raises bar with mastertrust code of practice
A new authorisation code requiring mastertrusts to demonstrate their financial sustainability may force a number of providers from the market, experts have speculated.
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Nortel reaches PPF-plus after nine years of 'scorched earth'
The UK Nortel Pension Scheme has retrieved enough assets from the insolvency of its communications giant parent to buy out benefits at a level above that guaranteed by the Pension Protection Fund.
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OpinionDB white paper generates as many questions as answers
The Pensions Regulator wants to be clearer, quicker and tougher. The white paper has come back with a batch of proposed new powers that read, at first, more like fast and furious.
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Opinion21st Century Trusteeship – managing advisers and service providers
We have been running our 21 Century Trusteeship programme for several months, focusing on basic areas of trusteeship to drive up standards in pension schemes.
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News
The Pension SuperFund: Benevolent disruptor or danger to members?
If assembling a star-studded team of executives is enough to get a radical new pensions proposition off the ground, Edi Truell might already have done enough to disrupt the UK defined benefit sector.
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OpinionSuperfund – shoot first
Editorial: The Department for Work and Pensions has kept its word with the publication of its highly anticipated white paper, even managing to deliver it ahead of its spring target.
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News
PwC probed on Carillion fees and conflicts
MPs have grilled PwC partners on fees and the safeguards the accountancy firm put in place to prevent conflicts of interest arising from its various roles regarding collapsed contractor Carillion.
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Opinion
Is ESG on course to become the norm in DC defaults?
High profile corporate governance failures, campaigns against the use of plastics, and US pension funds criticised for holding gun manufacturers after the latest school shooting – a powerful combination of recent events has pushed environmental, social and governance investing further up the institutional agenda.
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News
TPR and FCA seek input for joint strategy
The Pensions Regulator and the Financial Conduct Authority are jointly calling for input on regulating the pensions and retirement sector.
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NewsFines for DB negligence leave industry split
Employers who wilfully or recklessly put their defined benefit pension schemes at risk are in the firing line of new punitive fines announced in a government policy statement released on Monday.
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NewsReuters steps up member comms during sponsor M&A
Trustees of the defined benefit schemes of Thomson Reuters have been updating members about the agreed sale of part of the business, as experts stress the fine line between saying too much or too little about a deal.
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New British Steel Pension Scheme meeting size and funding tests
Under the terms of the agreement between Tata Steel UK and the BSPS relating to the regulated apportionment arrangement, the New BSPS will only go ahead if certain conditions are met – including conditions related to size and funding level.
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OpinionLearning the lessons of Carillion
The industry is once again watching with interest and some discomfort as Frank Field and the select committee conduct their inquiry on Carillion’s failure and the impact on its pension schemes.
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Opinion
Trustees must delve deeper to provide value for members
Millennials will be the first generation to benefit from auto-enrolment and may even have a £1m pot to enjoy in retirement, according to the Pensions Policy Institute.
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News
Healthcare company pleads guilty to misleading TPR
A Birmingham-based healthcare company and its managing director have pleaded guilty to misleading the Pensions Regulator about enrolling staff into a workplace pension, after a whistleblower raised the alarm.