Speaking at the event CMA project director Alison Gold says that the regulator had looked into this issue as part of its wide-ranging investigation into investment consultants and fiduciary management. She says...
The largest master trusts are all expected to gain full authorisation within the next six months, according to The Pensions Regulator. In a keynote speech at the Corporate Adviser summit 2018, TPR...
For Aegon’s recently appointed chief distribution officer Ronnie Taylor, the completion of July’s Part VII transfer – the legal process oftransferring the BlackRock platform to Aegon - is the firing gun for...
Many smaller pension schemes are failing to demonstrate they provide good value for members according to new research from The Pensions Regulator. In its annual DC survey, the watchdog found that nine...
The report says there are issues with the transparency of costs and charges in contract-based and master trust schemes, particularly where there is a commercial link between asset manager and provider. It says...
New ONS figures show that since 2012, and the start of auto-enrolment, an additional 9.8m people have been enrolled into workplace pension schemes. However over this period, contribution levels of have fallen...
Hill will join the regulator in November. She is currently director of market intelligence, data and analysis at the FCA. In her new role Hill will be responsible for implementing TPR’s tougher...
In some ways, the defined contribution space has hardly changed in the last two decades. Most of the conversations we have today are the same ones heard 20 years ago - how...
Now: Pensions revealed poor performance over three years when compared to the other 24 defaults in the Corporate Adviser Master Trust Defaults report. Its default returned 2.4 per cent annualised in the...
Auto-enrolment defaults lack sophistication in their investment design and this is in large part down to a misguided focus on cost. Employers, consultants and advisers need to switch their focus from cost...
