The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) new Value for Money (VFM) consultation for contract-based arrangements aims to achieve long-awaited consistency in measuring the effectiveness of all workplace DC pension schemes. While the overarching...
Should pension schemes allow members to use funds to help get them on the property ladder? And are there more innovative ways the pension funds could be used to address the housing...
The state of the NHS is figuring prominently in most debates in the run up to polling day on July 4. So why isn’t group risk and healthcare occupying some of the...
Engagement has a crucial role to play when it comes to encouraging members to save more into workplace pensions, a crucial factor in improving retirement outcomes. At a recent roundtable event consultants...
Few would disagree that better engagement with workplace pensions could significantly improve member outcomes. But there is less agreement among consultants and providers when it comes to how to quantify the value...
Once seen as a perk to help senior management get their hernias and dodgy knees fixed quickly in the private sector, workplace healthcare benefits have undergone a major transformation over the past...
All sections of the workplace pension sector are coming under pressure to improve access to retirement solutions to facilitate better decisions.But as always, with two regulators there are differences in the detail...
The government’s drive to benchmark investment performance and target poor performance highlights a number of challenges for the DC pensions sector – how much weight to be given to past performance, and...
The Government has introduced a raft of legislation in recent years, designed to improve outcomes for pension scheme members. But this could prove ineffective without legislative action to make it easier to...
With growth in the DC pensions sector accelerating, the workplace pensions market is, 12 years on from the introduction of auto-enrolment, entering a new phase. As the market has matured, there is...
