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Author: Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions
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Published: 2014-10-29
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780101885782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dated October 2014. A TSO version of a title previously published by HM Government.
Author: Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2013-10-30
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780101873727
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Government is proposing to introduce a system of automatic pensions transfers to help people to better keep track of their workplace pension savings. The majority of people being automatically enrolled are likely to join the default fund in defined contribution (DC) schemes. It is, therefore, important to ensure that these schemes deliver the best possible value for money. The impact of the charges levied on people's pensions savings over their lifetime can be significant - seemingly small variations in charges can result in a considerable difference in people's final retirement savings. A number of voluntary industry initiatives seeking to improve disclosure of charges information to scheme members and employers have been launched in an effort to reduce the complexity of the product. The Government welcomes these initiatives, but is interested in views on whether further action is required. There are a number of potential options: mandating disclosure to members by widening the disclosure requirements, to include information about charges; standardising disclosure to employers; or disclosure of transaction costs - require disclosure to members, employers, as well as trustees, and independent governance committees (as recommended by the OFT). The Government is also interested in hearing views on whether: a cap on pension scheme charges should be introduced; differential charging between active and deferred members should be banned in DC qualifying schemes; the ban on consultancy charges should be extended from AE schemes to all qualifying DC schemes; adviser commissions set up prior to the introduction of the Retail Distribution Review should be banned in qualifying schemes
Author: Stationery Office (Great Britain)
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781474110372
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781474114929
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Published: 2014-04-10
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780101884020
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Command Paper forms the Government's response to its consultations on minimum quality standards and its formal response to the OFT market report. It brings forward a package of proposals that will ensure that individuals are enrolled into schemes with low and fair charges, good governance and increased transparency. It describes the Government's plan to improve governance in Defined Contribution workplace schemes. This includes proposals for both contract and trust-based schemes, examining how administration standards might be improved and looking closely at the relationship between scheme size and good member outcomes. It also contains the Government's plans to create fair and appropriate charging structures in Defined Contribution workplace schemes - through a charge cap on default funds used in qualifying schemes and an end to inappropriate member-borne charging structures such as Active Member Discounts, consultancy charges and adviser commissions within qualifying schemes. Transparency will play a vital role in delivering these changes. For the first time providers and schemes will be required to produce line item disclosure of all charges in a standard format
Author: Stationery Office (Great Britain)
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781474101431
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Published: 2015
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2012-11-22
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780101847827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The UK's pensions system is need of reform for two primary reasons. Firstly, the UK has an aging population and secondly, working age people are not saving enough to meet their expectations of income on retirement. The Government has already begun to set in train a series of reforms. In particular it has brought forward plans to increase State Pension age; set out proposals to create a single-tier State Pension to provide a firm foundation for saving for retirement; and introduced automatic enrolment into workplace pensions. We do, though, also need to ensure that those people saving privately for their retirement are doing so in high quality schemes. This strategy sets out the key issues which need to be tackled. The reinvigoration objectives include: increase the amount people are saving in pensions; increase the amount people receive for their savings; enable industry innovation to develop products which will give more certainly about pensions; increase transparency; and ensure the sustainability and stability of the UK pension system.
Author: Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9780101871020
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Reinvigorating workplace pensions1 published last November, the Government set out to explore whether there was scope for a new category of defined ambition (DA) pensions that would complement the defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) structures that currently dominate the market. Automatic enrolment and the single-tier State Pension will provide a firm foundation for saving for retirement. But if the current forms of DC pension saving become the default alternative to traditional DB, the pension income of future generations from workplace pensions will be more uncertain than for past generations. Over the last 12 months the DA project - a joint project between DWP and the pensions industry - has been exploring options in a middle ground. The Government proposes that the regulation of workplace pension schemes should not focus on the detail of benefit design but on what is important to the member: ensuring that any promise or guarantee, whether from the sponsoring employer or scheme, provider is delivered. This Government proposes to make it easier for employers to sponsor new pension schemes where benefits accrue on a specified basis (e.g. related to salary); and also to allow additional flexibilities for future accruals only within existing DB schemes, including the possibility of allowing a statutory override to facilitate these changes. The new flexibility will remove constraints from the existing legislative framework while still giving employees the certainty of a pension scheme where the benefits are defined (such as in relation to their salary) with the security of the promise being sponsored by their employer
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780215056979
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The introduction of auto-enrolment makes rigorous pension scheme governance essential. This Report calls on the Government to reassess the case for establishing one body with sole responsibility for regulating workplace pensions. There are concerns over current gaps in regulation and the potential for further gaps to arise as a result of now having three regulators, the Pensions Regulator; and the new Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority, set up to replace the FSA. The Report argues that a single regulator is necessary to ensure that all members of workplace pension schemes are adequately and consistently protected. It also highlights that deferred-member charges and member-borne consultancy charges have the potential to cause serious consumer detriment. It recommends that both are banned by the Government, if significant progress is not made in the very near future by the industry towards ending them. There is particular concern about member-borne consultancy charges and those charges applied to deferred members - people who stop contributing to their pension scheme. The trend towards lower pension scheme charges is welcome. However, a good average is not sufficient and there is potential for consumer detriment in schemes that persist in retaining high charges. The Government should also regularly review its policy on capping charges for auto-enrolment schemes. Consumers are also continuing to lose out when they buy annuities because pension providers are not doing enough to ensure people are aware that they can shop around for the best annuity rate rather than being obliged to buy an annuity from their pension provider.
