Does TPR's scheme choice guide overstep the mark?

Jack Jones looks at how the regulator's advice steers employers away from small schemes

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Overly prescriptive legislation or regulation seems to wind up people in pensions more than anything else. Nothing unites the various industry factions more effectively than the threat of governments or regulators telling them how to design schemes.

But that is exactly what The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has been accused of this week, by the usually softly spoken Kevin LeGrand (PP Online, 8 August). LeGrand was angered by advice published by the...

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