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Fire and Police Local Pension Boards

Governance Conference 2019

Nick Gannon

Policy Lead

15 May 2019

Public Service Pensions

Governance Conference

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An evolving Pensions Regulator

• Our role is to protect workplace pensions

• We are being clearer, quicker and tougher

• We are changing in five key areas:

− clarifying our identity

− setting clear expectations

− improving our regulatory oversight

− using a wider range of regulatory interventions

− being more efficient and effective

The evolving Pensions Regulator

Efficient and effectiveInterventionRegulatory oversight

Clear expectationsIdentity and

engagement

• Be proactive with our engagement (PSPS, DB, DC and MTs)

• Supervision and Enforcement functions

• Clearer, quicker and tougher approach

New approach will:

• Build strong, open and transparent relationships with those responsible for

scheme governance & administration

• Enable greater understanding of legal requirements and TPRs perspective

• Enable us to detect and address any potential problems early on and to work with

those involved to resolve them

• Greater focus on governance and administration standards across all the

schemes we regulate

TPR Future

Governance and Administration Survey (2018)

• The survey is voluntary

• Carried out in November & December 2018

• This year’s responses covered 94% of schemes and 99% of memberships.

• The survey is anonymous by default, though schemes can attribute their

answers so that TPR and or their Scheme Advisory Board can see them

• TPR does not take regulatory action based on the answers given, but the

answers in aggregate may inform our regulatory approaches

PSPS survey

PSPS survey – Key processes

Key processes (by size within scheme type)

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Pension board meetings in the last 12 months

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Pension Board composition

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Pension Board Composition

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Assessing and managing risk

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Knowledge & Understanding (1)

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Knowledge & Understanding (2)

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Employer data provision

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Protection against cyber risk (overall)

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Protection against cyber risk

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Cyber security & breaches in the last year

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Barriers to improvement

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Key results

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