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Pensions dashboard data standards published; Opperman urges providers to prepare data
Pensions dashboard data standards published; Opperman urges providers to prepare data

The Pensions Dashboard Programme (PDP) has published key data standards which will underpin the initial technology used to allow savers to view their pensions.

  • Admin / Technology
  • 15 December 2020
Timeline for pensions dashboards announced - Data standards due in December but consumer offering not available until at least 2023
Timeline for pensions dashboards announced - Data standards due in December but consumer offering not available until at least 2023

The Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) has published its second progress update report – setting out a timeline for the development of the project.

  • Industry
  • 28 October 2020
Industry pushes for AE intervention so members don't squander pension pot
Industry pushes for AE intervention so members don't squander pension pot

The pensions industry must personalise interventions and auto-enrolment (AE) conversations to prevent members from squandering their pots at retirement age, according to industry experts.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 15 October 2020
Schemes face 'multi-million pound' dashboard compliance bill
Schemes face 'multi-million pound' dashboard compliance bill

Pensions schemes will face significant additional working costs reaching into the millions of pounds to prepare their data for the pensions dashboard, according to Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP).

  • Law and Regulation
  • 25 August 2020
Relive Professional Pensions Live with our on-demand videos
Relive Professional Pensions Live with our on-demand videos

Did you miss a session at Professional Pensions Live or want to relive the conference? You can now catch every session on-demand at your own convenience.

  • Industry
  • 11 August 2020
Five stories you may have missed this week
Five stories you may have missed this week

This week’s top stories included an announcement from The Pensions Regulator at PP Live which confirmed a consultation on changes to its code of practice will open this year, while the Pension Protection Fund revealed a small improvement in defined benefit...

  • Industry
  • 17 July 2020
Guy Opperman, Charles Counsell and Margaret Snowdon among headliners at next week's PP Live
Guy Opperman, Charles Counsell and Margaret Snowdon among headliners at next week's PP Live

Over 500 people are now registered to attend Professional Pensions Live - the industry’s largest virtual conference & exhibition.

  • Industry
  • 09 July 2020
Maps begins market engagement project with pensions dashboard suppliers
Maps begins market engagement project with pensions dashboard suppliers

The Money and Pensions Service (Maps) has started a six-week period of informal market engagement with potential suppliers of the digital architecture for the pensions dashboards.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 22 June 2020
Where now for the pensions dashboard?
Where now for the pensions dashboard?

Enormous amounts of work are still required in order to deliver the pensions dashboard. Ros Altmann looks at the issues involved and urges politicians not to abandon the idea of an independent public dashboard.

  • Industry
  • 27 April 2020
Maps flags Covid-19 implications for pensions dashboard launch
Maps flags Covid-19 implications for pensions dashboard launch

The Money and Pensions Service (Maps) has published its first full report on progress on the pensions dashboard so far and has flagged “significant” delivery challenges in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Industry
  • 08 April 2020
Lessons for policy change
Lessons for policy change

Auto-enrolment reforms have transformed the UK’s pension system. Nick Reeve looks at latest research examining the lessons to be learned from the process.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 17 February 2020
Spend money on data to make dashboard beneficial, says industry
Spend money on data to make dashboard beneficial, says industry

The industry needs to spend a significant amount of money on data and administration to make the dashboard worthwhile, according to pension professionals.

  • Admin / Technology
  • 18 October 2019
MAPS establishes steering group with ten members to take dashboards forward
MAPS establishes steering group with ten members to take dashboards forward

The Money and Pensions Service (MAPS) has made ten appointments across the pensions and wider financial sector to work on the practicalities of establishing pensions dashboards.

  • Admin / Technology
  • 25 September 2019
Defined Contribution Conference: Register now
Defined Contribution Conference: Register now

Professional Pensions is holding its defined contribution (DC) conference on 4 September.

  • Industry
  • 23 August 2019
Minimum AE contribution rates could rise to 12% by 2030
Minimum AE contribution rates could rise to 12% by 2030

Auto-enrolment (AE) minimum contribution rates could rise to 12% by 2030, with a 50/50 split between employer and employee, the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) says.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 26 June 2019
Chris Curry appointed as dashboard delivery group principal
Chris Curry appointed as dashboard delivery group principal

The Money and Pensions Service (MAPS) has appointed Chris Curry as principal of the Pensions Dashboard Industry Delivery Group.

  • Admin / Technology
  • 03 June 2019
PPI appoints seven governors
PPI appoints seven governors

The Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) has appointed seven further governors to join over 100 already in post.

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  • 01 May 2019
UUK appoints three to USS joint expert panel
UUK appoints three to USS joint expert panel

Universities UK (UUK) has appointed Ronnie Bowie, Sally Bridgeland and Chris Curry to the Universities Superannuation Scheme's (USS) joint expert panel, to examine the valuation of the USS.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 24 May 2018
What's next for auto-enrolment?
What's next for auto-enrolment?

Phasing has arrived with auto-enrolment contributions rising from 2% to 5% for millions of pension savers. As we wait to see what happens as a result, James Phillips asks what's next.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 27 March 2018
AE review: Lower earnings limit scrapped and 18-year-olds eligible from mid-2020s
AE review: Lower earnings limit scrapped and 18-year-olds eligible from mid-2020s

The government has set out plans to scrap the auto-enrolment (AE) lower earnings limit and extend the programme to 18-year-olds, but not until the mid-2020s.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 17 December 2017
AE review: Five things to watch out for
AE review: Five things to watch out for

Ahead of the results of the automatic enrolment (AE) review, PP looks at what could come up.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 14 December 2017
What the AE review chairmen are thinking about
What the AE review chairmen are thinking about

The three chairmen of the DWP's review of AE explain their key thinking around the future of the flagship programme. James Phillips reports

  • Law and Regulation
  • 19 October 2017
Field: AE review is missed opportunity for rate hikes
Field: AE review is missed opportunity for rate hikes

The government has blundered by failing to include rate hikes past 8% in its forthcoming review of automatic enrolment (AE), Frank Field has said.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 09 February 2017
Three industry experts to lead AE review advisory board
Three industry experts to lead AE review advisory board

The government has announced that Ruston Smith, Jamie Jenkins and Chris Curry will chair the external advisory board for this year's review of auto-enrolment (AE).

  • Law and Regulation
  • 08 February 2017
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