The Pensions Regulator

Kate Smith looks at how trustees can find an appropriate comparator scheme and decide their next actions

Concerns over criminal powers unnecessary, with use to be a ‘very significant deterrent’

Jacqui Woodward says small schemes may struggle to deal with the myriad issues highlighted in TPR’s annual update.

The dynamics of pension scheme cashflows change, and can change rapidly, David Fairs says.

Industry feedback on the contentious ‘employer resources test’ (ERT) is unlikely to significantly shift The Pension Regulator’s (TPR) approach to issuing contribution notices, it says.

Defined benefit (DB) pension schemes must stay alive to heightening risks to funding from sponsor covenants, climate change and longevity experience, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) says.

Trustees have been warned to keep an eye on weakening employer covenants even after a positive aggregate funding experience in the last three years as myriad funding and investment issues pose risks to defined benefit (DB) schemes.

The revised defined benefit (DB) funding code is not likely to be live until late 2022, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has said.

Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) teams are under more administration pressure than ever with the raft of regulation and legislation such as McCloud, according to a Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) panel.

Many trustees are not fully aware of the new requirements of The Pension Regulator’s (TPR) combined code of practice, giving them little time to prepare for change, Barnett Waddingham says.