TPR 'notified' of six additional master trusts it will need to authorise
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has said it was unaware of six schemes that meet the legal definition of 'master trust' ahead of the start of the authorisation regime.
In a new monthly master trust market update, the watchdog said a total of nine further master trusts had been identified since it published its defined contribution (DC) statistics in January, bringing...
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