ACA – Association of Consulting Actuaries

Our response highlights a number of areas in which we would like to see changes made. However, the draft Code is already a very helpful document and we would encourage the Regulator to finalise this as soon as possible, to Read More …

ACA comments on the draft regulations published on 18 February 2022 https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/draft-legislation-the-registered-pension-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2022, which work alongside and help trigger some of the recent changes by Finance Act 2022 to Finance Act 2004 (FA04) modifying the mandatory Scheme Pays (MSP) information and Read More …

In our response to the DWP Consultation on draft Pensions Dashboards regulations, whilst supportive of the policy intent, we have called for a further consultation on the regulations due to gaps and lack of clarity found in the initial draft. 

In our evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee inquiry we noted that whilst automatic enrolment (AE) has been successful in significantly increasing pension participation, but we are concerned this has created a false sense of security amongst many savers, Read More …

We are encouraged to see the Government responding to industry feedback in relation to supporting defined contribution (DC) scheme investment in productive finance. However, we highlight that the charge cap itself has not to date been the only barrier…

We support the IASB’s development of objectives-based disclosure requirements for IAS 19. However, we believe that a more comprehensive mandatory minimum disclosure requirements for each objective should be clearly set out for IAS 19 in order to ensure comparability and Read More …

Our submission to the DWP consultation represents the views of our Climate Risk Group, Investment Committee and Defined Contribution Committee, who represent our members in the important areas of climate change risk and investments. We feel it important to indicate Read More …

We are very supportive of the ambition that the joint discussion paper seeks to achieve, but a “one size fits all” prescribed set of benchmarks for assessment would not, in our view, be effective.  Rather, the aims should be to Read More …

In our response we comment that it would be useful if some more work could be done on a number of aspects of the various policies.   We also suggest TPR consider producing a “quick read” document, setting out the key Read More …

We have responded to the IFoA’s consultation on changes to the Regulatory Framework on Climate Change and Sustainability here…