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TPR’s cost to us increased from £104.8m to £115.2m in 2025/26; value for money?

  Here is TPR’s statement;  you make your mind up about VFM –  shouldn’t that be everyone’s big question? The Pensions Regulator’s (TPR) comprehensive net expenditure increased from £104.8m to £115.2m in 2025/26, as the regulator oversaw a workplace pensions … Continue reading

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If TPR read Altmann’s blog , they’d need more than air-con!

Before reading on, be aware that our good Baroness was once our Pension Minister and has been big in business. For what you are about to receive, you should be truly grateful, Has the Baroness been reading my blogs? This … Continue reading

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DB Surpluses could and should make pensions fairer for the young

We talk about pension gaps; gaps between men and women, gaps between public and private sector pensions, but we are careful not to offend employers who have relics of defined benefit (an enormous burden) pensions and ongoing workplace pensions ( … Continue reading

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TPR are right to curb my exuberant promotion of CDC

As I now have a compliance officer at Pensions Mutual, I have been admonished for my over exuberant promotion of CDC as a way of delivering workplace pensions.  I cannot name names but I’ve had meetings with TPR high-ups who’ve … Continue reading

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Is what’s happening with Capita and the Civil Service Pension something for TPR to get involved in?

It is amazing that civil servants who amongst other things are guardians of standards in pensions are being to hung out to dry while their pensions remain unpaid , claims unprocessed. There is action that needs to be taken by … Continue reading

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The Pensions Regulator consults for pensions – not on savings.

Thankfully, the Pensions Regulator has returned to pensions as the focus of what it regulates. Its consultation on its five year corporate plan is at time merely rhetoric but the opening gambit is something of an admission that the Regulator … Continue reading

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TPR publishes annual funding statement 2026

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published its Annual Funding Statement 2026. It remains cautious on the risks Trustees must take into account TPR says It remains essential to recognise the potential impact of ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty on both scheme investments … Continue reading

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TPR’s CEO estimates a decade for workplace saving to move back to pensions

  This is the Pension Regulator’s speech. It has a summary of  what the  CEO intended to be understood.  This summary has come from artificial intelligence. I doubt that any human was involved for it is nothing but cliches and … Continue reading

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TPR has a bible to get and keep a CDC scheme authorised.

The Code of Practice for CDC is our bible! I will strain my blog to deliver something that is very serious and meaningful to the DWP, TPR and the few people set upon getting authorised to run a CDC from … Continue reading

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Could actuaries have had a better balanced address?

I must admit I wrote to Nausicaa Delfas to thank her for her speech. It is the first time I’ve heard the Pensions Regulator speak of CDC as a (let alone the) way forward. But I feel bound to give … Continue reading

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