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Pensions Regulator announces changes to the DC scheme return for 2024
The Regulator has issued an online announcement about upcoming changes to its DC scheme return.
United Kingdom | Publication | April 2023
The Occupational Pension Schemes (Administration, Investment, Charges and Governance) and Pensions Dashboards (Amendment) Regulations 2023 were made on March 30, 2023, and came into force on April 6, 2023.
The new regulations add “specified performance-based fees” to the list of charges excluded from the 0.75 per cent DC charge cap.
They also require trustees of relevant DC schemes to disclose their policies on illiquid investments in their default statement of investment principles (SIP). These disclosures will have to be included by the first date on which the default SIP is revised after October 1, 2023, or October 1, 2024, at the latest.
Trustees will also be obliged to disclose and explain the percentage of assets in their default funds allocated to different asset classes in the annual Chair's statement covering the first scheme year ending after October 1, 2023.
The DWP has published guidance for DC trustees of affected schemes which is intended to assist in the calculation and format of asset allocation disclosures.
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The Regulator has issued an online announcement about upcoming changes to its DC scheme return.
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On July 30, 2024, the Regulator published its market oversight report on how trustees are complying with their environmental, social and governance (ESG) duties, including in respect of climate change.
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We reported last month that the Court of Appeal had agreed with the High Court’s previous judgment that all rule amendments to contracted-out DB schemes between 1997 and 2013 require written actuarial certification. Three pensions professional bodies have now issued a joint statement on the effect of the ruling.
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