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      Risk Reduction Forum 2019

      The Risk Reduction Forum seeks to arm trustees and scheme professionals with practical insights around best practice, and takeaways they can apply to their own scheme

      • Date: 14 Mar 2019
      • Radisson Blu Bloomsbury, London
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      Rising Star Awards 2019

      Professional Pensions has launched its inaugural Rising Stars Awards to celebrate the emerging talent in pensions

      • Date: 27 Mar 2019
      • Proud Embankment, London
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      Defined Contribution Conference 2019

      This exclusive one day conference will provide a comprehensive overview of the evolving DC landscape, and examine how Trustees and Pension Scheme Managers can overcome the challenges they face

      • Date: 24 Apr 2019
      • The Bloomsbury Hotel, 16-22 Great Russell St, London WC1B 3NN, London
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      Professional Pensions & PIC Breakfast Briefing

      This breakfast briefing will take a look at the outlook for the risk reduction market - looking in particular at how schemes can best prepare to conduct an insurance transaction, capacity in the market as well as the key factors that are likely to affect both pricing and demand.

      • Date: 30 Apr 2019
      • The Ned, 27 Poultry, London EC2R 8AJ, London
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    • How DC schemes can gain exposure to different asset classes in a low-return environment

      So far, DC plans have largely been focused on the onset of auto-enrolment and changes to the regulatory framework - be it the ‘charge cap,' ‘pension freedoms' or consultations around ‘value for money', says Annabel Tonry, Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM).

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      Pension freedoms three years on

      In 2015 George Osborne, then the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, decided that those age over 55 could take much more of their pension in cash. This has since opened up a range of possibilities for DC scheme members in the world of pensions.

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Defined Contribution

Breakfast Briefing on DC Engagement
Breakfast Briefing: Engaging DC members

Professional Pensions is holding a breakfast briefing on engaging defined contribution (DC) members on 7 February.

  • Industry
  • 24 January 2019
Treasury agrees £330m guarantee for NEST authorisation

HM Treasury has agreed in principle to give NEST a £329m contingent liability guarantee in the event of the master trust's wind up or closure.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 23 January 2019
Smart Pension absorbs £12.5m Corporate Pensions Trust; Will apply for authorisation 'imminently'

Smart Pension has absorbed more than 6,500 members from the Corporate Pensions Trust (CPT) after its trustees decided not to apply for authorisation.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 21 January 2019
DC Investment Forum announces chairman and vice-chairwoman

The Defined Contribution Investment Forum (DCIF) has reappointed Vivek Roy as chairman for 2019 following a vote at its annual general meeting last November.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 21 January 2019
Matt Dodds
Master trust authorisation: Exiteers v remainers

Late March marks the deadline for master trust authorisation. But how will the new regulatory regime affect those that are remaining in the market and those that decide to exit? Matt Dodds looks at the details.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 18 January 2019
Darren Philp
All we are saying... is give CDC a chance

Darren Philp argues collective defined contribution could really come to life this year if innovation is allowed to thrive.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 14 January 2019
Why we should be pensions positive in 2019

Despite the gloom around Brexit and all the challenges facing pensions, there are plenty of reasons to be cheerful. Top industry commentators tell Stephanie Baxter why there is cause for optimism

  • Industry
  • 08 January 2019
Malcolm Mclean, Barnett Waddingham
Think tank urges government to cap tax-free lump sums at £40,000

Capping the pension tax-free lump sum at £40,000 would raise £2bn a year for the government, new research by the Resolution Foundation suggests.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 04 January 2019
Three more master trusts apply for authorisation; L&G confirms submission

Just six of the remaining 49 defined contribution master trusts have applied for authorisation to The Pensions Regulator (TPR) since its regime came into force last October.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 04 January 2019
Adrian Boulding, NOW Pensions
Adrian Boulding: My pension predictions for 2019

NOW Pensions' director of policy says this will be the year when the net-pay anomaly becomes too awkward to ignore, and predicts LISA will have its own lifetime curtailed

  • Law and Regulation
  • 03 January 2019
Three-quarters of employers support pensions tax relief reform

Three-quarters of employers would support pensions tax relief changes if they provide more help to lower-paid earners, according to the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA).

  • Defined Contribution
  • 02 January 2019
Alliance Bernstein
The digital revolution is coming to fixed income

Fixed-income investing hasn't kept up with the rapid pace of technological innovation in the rest of the financial industry. Alliance Bernstein says that's about to change

  • Defined Contribution
  • 02 January 2019
Exclusive: Crystal Trust consolidates The Open Pension Trust; applies for authorisation

The £50m Crystal Trust has welcomed 35,000 members from The Open Pension Trust, absorbing £33m of members' assets.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 19 December 2018
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A third of DC members 'expect living standards to decline in retirement'

People in their mid-career aged 35-49 are the most likely to struggle with saving for retirement, according to Aon's 2018 defined contribution (DC) and financial wellbeing member survey.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 14 December 2018
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Scottish Budget income tax decision widens pension tax relief gap

Scottish higher-rate taxpayers will benefit from more pensions tax relief than workers on the same salary anywhere else in the UK as income tax bands continue to diverge.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 13 December 2018
Nicola Parish
Check if your scheme is a master trust, TPR urges

Schemes risk breaking the law and being forced to wind up as The Pensions Regulator (TPR) warns some may be master trusts but do not know so.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 13 December 2018
Helen Dowsey
NEST: The end of AE staging heralds a new focus on outcomes

NEST's director of business development Helen Dowsey speaks to James Phillips about communications, sidecar savings, and retirement products.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 11 December 2018
New Year's resolution: A diversified growth fund?

In the last of Newton Investment Management's DC columns for the year, Catherine Doyle casts an eye over the past few months and looks to 2019.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 11 December 2018
DC target date funds - addressing the big issues

AB answers some of the big questions in DC and looks at how TDFs can help improve outcomes for members.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 11 December 2018
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OECD: Target pension tax perks at wealthiest

Tax-based financial incentives for savings are wasted on the lowest paid workers as they may not have the means to contribute more into their pension, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 10 December 2018
Gregg McClymont
Lessons from Australia: Delivering pensions for the many not the few

Gregg McClymont looks at why not-for-profit DC schemes in Australia have been outperforming their for-profit peers

  • Defined Contribution
  • 05 December 2018
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Majority of master trusts support collaboration to overcome delivery barriers

Some 87% of master trusts support future collaborative efforts to overcome barriers to good service delivery, the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) says.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 05 December 2018
Tom Selby
Net pay issue to widen as AE lower earnings limit rise confirmed

Low earners in net-pay schemes will lose out on more pensions tax relief as the gap between auto-enrolment (AE) qualifying earnings and the personal tax allowance widens.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 04 December 2018
The future of retirement income solutions

Kim Kaveh gauges industry views on how to improve outcomes through innovation and engagement in the post-freedoms world.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 29 November 2018
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