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Investments and the importance of reporting: Stick or twist?
Investments and the importance of reporting: Stick or twist?

Trustees need clear reporting from their investment advisers to meet their scheme's needs, says Donny Hay

  • Investment
  • 19 October 2020
Time ticking to complete fiduciary management retenders
Time ticking to complete fiduciary management retenders

With under three-quarters of a year left for retendering exercises to be completed, capacity issues could arise and reduce choice, writes James Phillips.

  • Investment
  • 06 October 2020
IC Select launches fiduciary management retendering service
IC Select launches fiduciary management retendering service

IC Select has launched a three-tiered solution to help trustees required to retender for their fiduciary management provider by 10 June next year.

  • Industry
  • 16 June 2020
Fiduciary management - use it, scrutinise it, or lose it
Fiduciary management - use it, scrutinise it, or lose it

Joel Hartley looks at the key questions that trustees should be asking their fiduciary managers to ensure they are getting quality service.

  • Investment
  • 05 June 2020
Fiduciary management: Looking for a long-term partner
Fiduciary management: Looking for a long-term partner

Professional Pensions’ expert panel discusses key considerations for trustees tendering for a fiduciary manager.

  • Investment
  • 18 March 2020
Alignment is key to active fiduciary management outsourcing
Alignment is key to active fiduciary management outsourcing

Following the Competition and Marketing Authority's investigation, Nick Reeve looks at how trustees can prepare for the formal tender process required for the selection of fiduciary managers.

  • Investment
  • 18 March 2020
Five fiduciary management questions for trustees
Five fiduciary management questions for trustees

As schemes face additional hurdles to appoint fiduciary managers, Paul Wharton outlines the key considerations for all trustees in the process.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 22 January 2020
The fiduciary evaluators: KPMG's Greg Wright
The fiduciary evaluators: KPMG's Greg Wright

In the fourth of a series of interviews with fiduciary evaluators, Margie Lindsay speaks to KPMG’s Greg Wright about why he sees the evaluator role as critical in selection and monitoring processes

  • Investment
  • 03 January 2020
Exclusive: IC Select launches service to measure impact and quality of investment advice
Exclusive: IC Select launches service to measure impact and quality of investment advice

IC Select has launched an oversight service to empower trustees to challenge the quality and success of their investment advisers.

  • Investment
  • 04 December 2019
Investments: the poor cousin
Investments: the poor cousin

Trustees need to increase their focus on investments and demand more from their advisers, argues Donny Hay.

  • Investment
  • 02 December 2019
IC Select's Peter Dorward - fiduciary management a 'marriage not a date'
IC Select's Peter Dorward - fiduciary management a 'marriage not a date'

In the third of a series of interviews with fiduciary evaluators, Margie Lindsay speaks to IC Select’s Peter Dorward about his firm’s approach to fiduciary assessment.

  • Investment
  • 13 November 2019
The fiduciary evaluators: Hymans Robertson's Mark Baker
The fiduciary evaluators: Hymans Robertson's Mark Baker

In the second of a series of interviews with fiduciary evaluators, Margie Lindsay speaks to Hymans Robertson's Mark Baker about his firm’s approach to fiduciary assessment.

  • Investment
  • 23 October 2019
Exclusive: EY launches fiduciary manager selection dashboard
Exclusive: EY launches fiduciary manager selection dashboard

EY has launched a digital dashboard allowing trustees to more easily narrow the field of potential fiduciary managers before a tender process.

  • Admin / Technology
  • 10 October 2019
The past, present and future of fiduciary management fees
The past, present and future of fiduciary management fees

As the CMA’s remedies for the fiduciary management market bed in, schemes should be thinking more about how fees are structured, says David Hickey

  • Investment
  • 08 October 2019
The fiduciary evaluators: Barnett Waddingham's Peter Daniels
The fiduciary evaluators: Barnett Waddingham's Peter Daniels

In the first of a series of interviews with fiduciary evaluators, Margie Lindsay speaks to Barnett Waddingham’s Peter Daniels about how his team assesses fiduciary managers and the challenges for the industry going forward.

  • Investment
  • 26 September 2019
How schemes should be acting after CMA review
How schemes should be acting after CMA review

As pension schemes grapple with new fiduciary management and investment consulting rules, Charlotte Moore asks what trustees need to do

  • Law and Regulation
  • 26 September 2019
Industry generally positive over TPR guidance on investment governance
Industry generally positive over TPR guidance on investment governance

As The Pensions Regulator’s consultation on investment governance guidance closes, Holly Roach looks at the industry’s response.

  • Investment
  • 20 September 2019
Standalone funds not always subject to CMA tender rules
Standalone funds not always subject to CMA tender rules

Pension funds that decide to invest in standalone fiduciary management funds are being reassured that they will not be subject to mandatory tendering requirements.

  • Investment
  • 23 August 2019
Remember, remember the 10th of December…
Remember, remember the 10th of December…

Trustees risk leaving their scheme ungovernable if they do not get in place strategic objectives for investment advisers, warns John Paterson.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 15 August 2019
Hymans Robertson calls for clarification over impact of CMA order on LGPS funds
Hymans Robertson calls for clarification over impact of CMA order on LGPS funds

Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds must set investment objectives after the competition watchdog expanded those caught by its market investigation, but more clarity is needed, Hymans Robertson has said.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 20 June 2019
CMA takes final step in reform of investment consultants and fiduciary managers
CMA takes final step in reform of investment consultants and fiduciary managers

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued a legally-binding order in a bid to help pension trustees make better decisions for the £1.6trn of retirement assets they oversee.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 10 June 2019
Five stories you may have missed this week
Five stories you may have missed this week

This week's top stories included warnings that defined benefit (DB) transfers could become more difficult for trustees to process after regulatory register changes.

  • Industry
  • 15 March 2019
Government announces plan to press ahead with CMA reforms
Government announces plan to press ahead with CMA reforms

The government will proceed with a range of changes to the investment consultant and fiduciary management markets as recommended by a major competition review.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 12 March 2019
CMA issues draft order on remedies from market review
CMA issues draft order on remedies from market review

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has taken its first steps towards imposing a suite of remedies for the investment consulting and fiduciary management markets.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 13 February 2019
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