All value for money articles
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In Depth
In 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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Opinion
Pension 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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News
Consolidation pushes number of DC schemes below 1,000
The Pensions Regulator’s push towards “fewer, larger schemes” is having an impact as large DC funds – including master trusts – increase their dominance.
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Opinion
Breaking up is hard to do: Managing master trust moves
With the Value for Money regime on the horizon, Sackers senior counsel Emma Martin explores how trustees and employers can navigate changing master trust provider.
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News
Outlook 2025: The pensions industry’s wishlist for the new year
Pensions Expert spoke to six major industry groups to find out what they want to see happen in 2025, from the Pensions Review and the Pension Schemes Bill to trustee powers and improvements to member outcomes.
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Opinion
A pension scheme consolidation wishlist
The Association of British Insurers’ Rob Yuille outlines the changes that are needed to make consolidation a success in the trust-based and contract-based worlds.
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Opinion
Hoping for clarity on Value for Money
The Society of Pension Professionals’ Brian McBride sets out the organisation’s views on how to improve the proposed Value for Money framework.
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News
Opperman: Consolidation needs to be harder, better, faster, stronger
Former pensions minister Guy Opperman has called for workplace pensions consolidation to be accelerated and extended to include commercial providers and even regulators.
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News
Value for Money plans not set in stone, say regulators
The regulators are open to changing their planned ‘red-amber-green’ model for the Value for Money framework as the consultation process continues.
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Opinion
Editor's notes: Managing the 'Daily Mail' risk
Getting Value for Money right will take plenty of time, consideration and collaboration. Making sure it’s communicated properly can’t be ignored.
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News
TPR grows investment team and vows to 'probe' strategies
The regulator has doubled its investment consultant staff in a bid to increase its scrutiny of investment strategies as schemes seek to allocate more to UK-centric assets.
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Opinion
Planning a route to better DC outcomes
Why did the pension trustee cross the road? To catch a bus, but also to demonstrate attitudes to risk, as Maggie Rodger of the Association of Member Nominated Trustees explains.
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News
What TPR wants from Value for Money consultation
The regulator has called for industry input on measures of service quality and forward-looking performance metrics to build out its Value for Money framework.
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News
Regulators propose ‘red-amber-green' Value for Money framework
Defined contribution (DC) pension schemes will be required to publicly disclose investment performance, charges and service quality metrics under a proposed Value for Money framework.
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News
Industry casts doubt on elements of Value for Money framework
A traffic light approach to value for money risks oversimplifying, while ensuring alignment with the government’s productive finance agenda could prove difficult, say commentators.
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News
TPR: Do better on decumulation
The regulator lays out seven challenges that lie between DC savers and a good decumulation outcome.
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News
The industry’s wishlist for the autumn statement
Pensions didn’t feature in the King’s Speech – what would the industry like from the autumn statement?
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News
TPR's Delfas supports Mansion House reforms
Nausicaa Delfas, chief executive of The Pensions Regulator’s said the watchdog welcomed the government’s new package of pensions measures announced by the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt this week.
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News
TPR: 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).