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Sharon Bellingham says trustees should examine DC assets' resilience against critical events

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Sharon Bellingham is master trust lead at Scottish Widows
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Sharon Bellingham is master trust lead at Scottish Widows

It's clear that the regulatory glare that was once focused on smaller and less well governed schemes now reaches further and wider across the entire occupational defined contribution (DC) spectrum.

It's also apparent from the recent consultation on DC consolidation and other mood music that second phase planning is firmly on the legislative ‘to-do' list and the pace of change we've so far see...

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