ACA – Association of Consulting Actuaries

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…

We have responded to the 2022/23 PPF Levy consultation as follows:

In our response to the consultation on Strengthening the Pensions Regulator’s Powers: Notifiable Events (Amendments) Regulation 2021 we say comprehensive guidance is absolutely essential as soon as possible.  See…