National Partnership Manager at NOW: Pensions, Neill Ferguson's presents From default to design: why good governance matters at Reward Live - A practical guide to Auto Enrolment on the 11th of July 2013.
1. From default to design:
why good governance
matters
Niall Ferguson | 4 July 2013
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www.nowpensions.com
2. Our achievements
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NOW: Pensions is a UK
multi-employer Trust
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Supported by ATP, Denmark’s
leading pension provider
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Low cost operating model
c£74bn FUM
ATP investment team
+7.95% p.a. (average)
for the last 5 years*
45 years
Equiniti Paymaster
administrator to 2.9m UK workers
C 160,000 employers
4.7m members
* Back tested data for the UK based on ATP’s investment strategy and NOW: Pensions’ implementation strategy to 30 Sept 2012
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3. GPP
Multi-Employer Trust
– Best of both worlds
• Costs met by
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Cost options are
your choice
• No Trustee
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Trustee Board in
place
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No fund selection
required
members
Board
• Wide range
of funds
• Undefined
Governance
framework
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Defined Governance
framework
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Trust DC
• Costs met by
employer
• Trustee Board
set up by
employer
• Funds selected
by Trustees
• Defined
Governance
framework
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4. Design of Default Investment Funds matter
Pensions Institute Findings
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5. 5%
10%
Yes
No
85%
Don’t Know
The results, displayed in the chart, show there is a huge lack
of understanding about investments and finance amongst the
population shown by the high “No” responses
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6. Does your workforce
understand pensions?
We surveyed consumers to ask if they would be able to rank the
riskiness of assets (bonds, cash, commodities and equities) from
very risky to least risky
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8. What’s the most you would bet on the toss
of a coin, if you stood to win £1,000?
£450
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£200
£100
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9. Even professional investors
end up chasing the market
FTSE All Share Index
Net Retail Flows into UK Equity and
Property Collective Mutual Funds £bn
Source: FTSE, Investment Management Association and AllianceBernstein
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10. It is important to focus on the right issues
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What do I want to
do when I retire?
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When do I want
to retire?
Do I need to make
contributions in excess
of the minimum?
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13. Contract Based DC =
Insurance Company has full responsibility
…and is conflicted
Trust Based DC =
Scheme Trustee Board has full responsibility
…and is nervous
Master Trusts =
But…
Independent Trustee Boards have responsibility
• They may be nervous about press reaction
• Their wider distribution strategy may
compromise their ability not to offer choice
• Distancing themselves from a conventional
approach may be too difficult
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14. Our Masterbe nervous about press reaction
Trust
• They may
• Knowledgeable and independent Trustee Board takesstrategy may
full responsibility
• Their wider distribution
for investment solution
compromise their ability not to offer choice
• New Proposition, so no blind spots created by considering legacy
issues/ existing proposition
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Distancing themselves from a conventional
approach may be too difficult
• No unwelcome pressure from other sources influencing our decisions
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16. Guided investment solution
Glidepath phase
100%
Return Target:
Cash
90%
80%
Return Target:
Annuity Prices
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
Return Target:
Cash + 3%
0%
Protecting your Tax Free
Cash Entitlement
Protecting the Buying Power
of your Pension Fund
Annuity Rates
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Fund
They may be nervous about press reaction Values
•
Their wider distribution strategy may
Growth Phase
Performance & Protection
compromise their ability not to offer choice
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Managed Diversified Growth Fund
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Distancing themselves from a conventional
Retirement Protection Fund
Cash Protection difficult
approach may be tooFund
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18. Simple charging structure for all
Providing a better pension for employees
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They may be nervous about press reaction
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Their wider distribution strategy may
compromise their ability not to offer choice
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Distancing themselves from a conventional
approach may be too difficult
Two explicit elements to our charges
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Notas del editor
ATP – PADA – gap in market for cost efficient, simple pensions with investment funds that perform …
ATP – PADA – gap in market for cost efficient, simple pensions with investment funds that perform …
Worrying about investment decisions detracts from key issuesMembers find it difficult to assess their own attitude to riskThose who self-select focus on recent market commentaryMembers rarely review their investment decisionsThose that do change, often fall into the ‘buy high / sell low’ trap
Members find it difficult to assess their own attitude to riskThe answer to this question will be very different at different life stages.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that new members to pension arrangements have an average attention span of 15 minutes when considering the scheme. After that time, interest starts to wane, and engagement becomes more difficult to achieve. During that 15 minutes its important to focus on the right issues. Considering attitude to risk and investment options eats into that key 15 min period
Anecdotal evidence suggests that new members to pension arrangements have an average attention span of 15 minutes when considering the scheme. After that time, interest starts to wane, and engagement becomes more difficult to achieve. During that 15 minutes its important to focus on the right issues. Considering attitude to risk and investment options eats into that key 15 min period
Worrying about investment decisions detracts from key issuesMembers find it difficult to assess their own attitude to riskThose who self-select focus on recent market commentaryMembers rarely review their investment decisionsThose that do change, often fall into the ‘buy high / sell low’ trap
Worrying about investment decisions detracts from key issuesMembers find it difficult to assess their own attitude to riskThose who self-select focus on recent market commentaryMembers rarely review their investment decisionsThose that do change, often fall into the ‘buy high / sell low’ trap
Worrying about investment decisions detracts from key issuesMembers find it difficult to assess their own attitude to riskThose who self-select focus on recent market commentaryMembers rarely review their investment decisionsThose that do change, often fall into the ‘buy high / sell low’ trap
Worrying about investment decisions detracts from key issuesMembers find it difficult to assess their own attitude to riskThose who self-select focus on recent market commentaryMembers rarely review their investment decisionsThose that do change, often fall into the ‘buy high / sell low’ trap
Worrying about investment decisions detracts from key issuesMembers find it difficult to assess their own attitude to riskThose who self-select focus on recent market commentaryMembers rarely review their investment decisionsThose that do change, often fall into the ‘buy high / sell low’ trap
Worrying about investment decisions detracts from key issuesMembers find it difficult to assess their own attitude to riskThose who self-select focus on recent market commentaryMembers rarely review their investment decisionsThose that do change, often fall into the ‘buy high / sell low’ trap