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Brunel appoints CACEIS as cost transparency and benchmarking provider
Brunel appoints CACEIS as cost transparency and benchmarking provider

The £30bn Brunel Pension Partnership has hired CACEIS to provide cost transparency and benchmarking services across the partnership.

  • Investment
  • 14 April 2020
Towards a value for money metric
Towards a value for money metric

Costs and fees are just a small part of the overall value for money definition, argues Con Keating

  • Defined Contribution
  • 18 September 2019
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
WPC calls for 'agreed definition' of value for money in wide-ranging pension transparency report
WPC calls for 'agreed definition' of value for money in wide-ranging pension transparency report

The government and regulators should not wait for the industry to "fail to act voluntarily" to provide value for money in pensions, the Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) says.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 05 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
Exclusive: KAS Bank expands cost transparency benchmark tool to DC trustees
Exclusive: KAS Bank expands cost transparency benchmark tool to DC trustees

KAS Bank has built on its cost transparency dashboard to offer UK defined contribution (DC) scheme trustees the option to benchmark costs relative to other pension funds.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 16 May 2019
NEST partners with KAS Bank to offer DC transparency dashboard
NEST partners with KAS Bank to offer DC transparency dashboard

The government's auto-enrolment provider NEST has teamed up with KAS Bank to offer a cost transparency service for its range of target date and specialist funds, to launch in Q2 2019.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 08 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
West Midlands Pension Fund leads £1bn global sustainable equity mandate
West Midlands Pension Fund leads £1bn global sustainable equity mandate

The £16bn local pension fund has launched a sustainable equity framework, which is available to all schemes in the LGPS Central pool.

  • Investment
  • 19 March 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
Transparency failings blamed on 'operationally inefficient' industry
Transparency failings blamed on 'operationally inefficient' industry

The WPC's cost and transparency inquiry reveals it is impossible to know exactly how much consumers and trustees are paying in charges. Victoria Ticha takes a closer look

  • Law and Regulation
  • 10 September 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
FCA to publish voluntary cost disclosure templates in autumn
FCA to publish voluntary cost disclosure templates in autumn

A Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) working group has recommended five institutional cost disclosure templates, although it says these should not be made mandatory.

  • Investment
  • 05 July 2018
AMX launches CCFs in bid to boost industry's efficiency and transparency
AMX launches CCFs in bid to boost industry's efficiency and transparency

Asset Management Exchange (AMX) has added tax transparent global equity vehicles to its range of investment funds to cut scheme costs and increase transparency across the industry.

  • Investment
  • 08 May 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.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 12 April 2018
Six pensions changes for the new tax year
Six pensions changes for the new tax year

The new tax year brings a number of changes to the pensions world, not least the first round of phasing for auto-enrolled employees.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 06 April 2018
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