Last July on this blog page, I made a commitment to delivering a new regulatory approach for TPR that reflects the political and economic pressure that continues to shape the pensions world, and to ensure savers are better protected.
Other regulatory news
Master trust authorisation – to the starting blocks
A few years ago we started to stamp our feet about master trusts. As automatic enrolment successfully swept through businesses and more and more people were being put into workplace pensions, master trust schemes grew in popularity.
New powers help bring balance and confidence to pensions
Here at TPR, when we are regulating DB schemes, we have to pull off a complicated balancing act. Parliament has given us a mandate to protect pension savers and the PPF.
Protecting the DB pensions universe
In assessing the events of 2017/18, I’m reminded not just of the work of industry and TPR colleagues but of the excellence and the dedication my colleagues at the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) provide.
Delivering on our pledge to change
For several months now, we have talked about our commitment to change as a regulator – to be clearer, quicker and tougher.
Pensions – we need good news as well as the bad and the ugly
No-one can claim that all is rosy in the pensions world. There are many things that could – and should – be done to make UK pensions better, simpler and more sustainable.
Blowing the whistle on the secret pension offenders
They hide in plain sight, looking respectable to the outside world but denying their workers their legal rights.
Master trusts – how we’re working to protect 10 million savers
In arguably the biggest change to pensions regulation since automatic enrolment was introduced six years ago, from October 2018 master trusts will have to apply to The Pensions Regulator (TPR) for authorisation to operate in the market.
Why DB pensions matter
If you only had newspaper headlines to go on, you might be forgiven for thinking that private sector defined benefit (DB) pension schemes are about to reach the end of the road.
Pension funds and illiquidity
Sustainable finance and impact investing are currently high on the government’s agenda.
