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LGPS Central partners with KAS Bank for cost transparency solution
LGPS Central partners with KAS Bank for cost transparency solution

Funds in LGPS Central will be given additional assistance to assist collection and analysis of investment costs after the pool partnered with KAS Bank.

  • Investment
  • 12 August 2019
Further six asset managers noted for 'exceptional transparency' on transaction costs
Further six asset managers noted for 'exceptional transparency' on transaction costs

Six asset managers have been praised for their "exceptional transparency" in reporting transaction costs and charges to clients including pension schemes.

  • Investment
  • 21 June 2019
CTI templates are a call to action
CTI templates are a call to action

Support for cost disclosure templates must be followed by help to make sense of the data, says Jonathan Stapleton.

  • Investment
  • 31 May 2019
Five stories you may have missed this week
Five stories you may have missed this week

This week's top stories included The Pensions Regulator criticising Sir Philip Green's latest plans for the Arcadia pension schemes.

  • Industry
  • 24 May 2019
Cost disclosure templates to launch mid-May
Cost disclosure templates to launch mid-May

The Cost Transparency Initiative (CTI) has set out plans to launch the long-awaited cost disclosure templates for pension schemes in mid-May.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 26 April 2019
Five stories you may have missed this week
Five stories you may have missed this week

This week's top stories included an accountant admitting fraud and making employer-related investments in the latest criminal prosecution pursued by The Pensions Regulator.

  • Industry
  • 01 March 2019
DWP must compel use of cost transparency templates in pensions bill, MPs told
DWP must compel use of cost transparency templates in pensions bill, MPs told

A pensions bill expected next year must include law to require schemes to collect, publish and analyse cost transparency data from their asset managers, MPs have been told.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 05 December 2018
Transparency campaigner Chris Sier launches pension cost collection facility
Transparency campaigner Chris Sier launches pension cost collection facility

A platform to help pension funds collect and analyse cost data, such as transaction costs, has been launched by Chris Sier, who has played an integral role in the fight for transparency.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 09 November 2018
PLSA in work to convene cost disclosure template implementation group
PLSA in work to convene cost disclosure template implementation group

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) is in the process of convening an industry-wide group to take forward the work of the Institutional Disclosure Working Group (IDWG).

  • Investment
  • 17 October 2018
Investment Association urges FCA to drop 'flawed' DC cost disclosure methodology
Investment Association urges FCA to drop 'flawed' DC cost disclosure methodology

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) must ditch the methodology used to calculate transaction costs incurred by investment of defined contribution (DC) funds as a matter of urgency, the Investment Association (IA) says.

  • Investment
  • 03 October 2018
Govt should fine or disqualify pension-dodging directors
Govt should fine or disqualify pension-dodging directors

The majority of Pensions Buzz respondents said directors who avoid obligations should be penalised.

  • Industry
  • 03 September 2018
MPs launch probe into pensions cost and transparency
MPs launch probe into pensions cost and transparency

The Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) has launched an inquiry to ask whether the pensions industry provides "sufficient transparency" of charges, strategy and performance to savers.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 03 August 2018
Schemes demur lacking cost efficiencies from 'outdated' asset managers
Schemes demur lacking cost efficiencies from 'outdated' asset managers

Pension scheme investment decision-makers are most worried about a lack of cost efficiencies and transparency in the asset management industry, according to latest research.

  • Investment
  • 23 July 2018
Pre-1997 benefits should not have statutory inflation protection, say half of respondents
Pre-1997 benefits should not have statutory inflation protection, say half of respondents

Granting statutory protection to pre-1997 benefits in defined benefit (DB) schemes would be an unfair cost to sponsors and would force even more closures, according to this weeks' Pensions Buzz respondents.

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  • 12 April 2018
Asset managers reject LGPS initiative on fees
Asset managers reject LGPS initiative on fees

Over 170 asset managers have rejected an initiative which requires better disclosure of fees UK public pension funds are charged, despite increased regulatory pressure on costs throughout the industry.

  • Investment
  • 29 March 2018
CMA 'moving in right direction' says industry
CMA 'moving in right direction' says industry

The industry has welcomed the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA's) working paper on the information available to trustees on the fees and quality of investment consultants and fiduciary managers.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 02 March 2018
Investments costs to become clearer in April as DWP pushes disclosure
Investments costs to become clearer in April as DWP pushes disclosure

Defined contribution (DC) schemes will face new duties to disclose investment costs and charges as the government presses ahead with a bid to build a more transparent and trustworthy pensions sector.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 27 February 2018
Transparency Task Force calls for IA's Cummings to apologise over 'offensive' Loch Ness fees comments
Transparency Task Force calls for IA's Cummings to apologise over 'offensive' Loch Ness fees comments

Gina Miller and others deserve ‘apology…public recognition and thanks’

  • Investment
  • 26 January 2018
PTL launches service to offer asset manager value for money assessments
PTL launches service to offer asset manager value for money assessments

PTL has introduced an investment cost assessment service to slim down and simplify costs and charges scrutiny for trustees.

  • Investment
  • 08 January 2018
Consolidation, cyber risk and transparency to dominate 2018
Consolidation, cyber risk and transparency to dominate 2018

This year will see consolidation, cyber risk and cost transparency dominate the industry's focus as schemes bid to improve value for money and meet data protection requirements.

  • Industry
  • 04 January 2018
Opperman: Pensions policies will not be de-railed by Brexit
Opperman: Pensions policies will not be de-railed by Brexit

The pensions and financial inclusion minister has rejected suggestions that the government is dominated by Brexit discussions and has no time to deal with pensions issues.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 07 December 2017
Consultants urged to take the lead in driving cost disclosure
Consultants urged to take the lead in driving cost disclosure

Chris Sier has called on investment consultants to take the lead on disclosure of costs and charges as for too long asset managers have not put pension clients first.

  • Industry
  • 13 November 2017
DC investment costs to be published as trustees face £50,000 fine
DC investment costs to be published as trustees face £50,000 fine

Defined contribution (DC) occupational schemes will be forced to disclose to members costs and charges associated with investing their retirement pots, the government has announced.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 26 October 2017
Tide of consultation on the way as minister indicates regulatory timetable
Tide of consultation on the way as minister indicates regulatory timetable

A raft of consultations and draft regulations will greet the industry over the coming weeks and months, the pensions and financial inclusion minister confirms.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 20 October 2017
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