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A sticky situation for trustees

Professional Pensions | 17 May 2012 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

With the number of savers set to jump from five million to a whopping 13 million under auto-enrolment, providers have unsurprisingly been angling for a slice of the action.

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Pittance for a pension

There has been much talk within the industry about coming up with a new name for pensions – with many believing the word has become too toxic to continue using.

Professional Pensions | 17 May 2012 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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Questioning the wisdom of tax-free lump sums

A pension is, beyond doubt, the most important of life’s financial arrangements.

Professional Pensions | 17 May 2012 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

Other Opinion Articles

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Why we should want ultra-long conventional gilts

Con Keating makes the case for a super-long conventional bond issuance.

Professional Pensions | 17 May 2012 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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Whose problem are pensions?

A key theme to pensions is responsibility.

Professional Pensions | 10 May 2012 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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Vive la révolution!

A revolution is slowly gathering pace among institutional investors on the issue of excessive executive pay deals.

Professional Pensions | 10 May 2012 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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Red Tape Challenge Spotlight: Section 67

The government launched a public consultation on simplifying pension regulation as part of its wider Red Tape Challenge in April.

Professional Pensions | 10 May 2012 | 00:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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Red Tape Challenge Spotlight: Indexation

The government launched a public consultation on simplifying pension regulation as part of its wider Red Tape Challenge in April. In the second instalment of a three-part series for PP, the National Association of Pension Funds focuses on indexation.

Professional Pensions | 03 May 2012 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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A lighter regulatory touch

Often in pensions, consultations and the issuance of new guidance are tense occurrences.

Professional Pensions | 03 May 2012 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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Countdown to confusion

According to the Trafalgar Square Olympic countdown clock I passed just before I started writing this article, there are just 88 days, 6 hours, 37 minutes and 40 seconds until the games begin.

Professional Pensions | 03 May 2012 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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Fear of the unknown unknowns

As the US secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld famously said at a conference in 2002, there are three types of information: the known knowns, the known unknowns and, finally, the unknown unknowns.

Professional Pensions | 26 Apr 2012 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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What’s in a name?

Steve Webb has been talking about “defined ambition” since January, but when the pensions minister wrote about it in the Daily Telegraph last week he pushed the idea out of the pension industry and into the public eye.

Professional Pensions | 19 Apr 2012 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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The only thing to fear is ignorance

The industry may be gung-ho for auto-enrolment, but, Rachel Dalton asks, is the public on the same page?

Professional Pensions | 12 Apr 2012 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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