'Radical shake-up' brings one-to-one TPR supervision to 60 schemes

Rolled out to 25 schemes next month

James Phillips
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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) will double down on its supervision with hundreds of schemes expecting increased oversight, while more than 60 will be subject to dedicated, one-to-one supervision.

The extra scrutiny will come to defined benefit (DB), defined contribution (DC) and public sector schemes, the watchdog said as it unveiled a refreshed regulatory model and logo yesterday (17 September). The dedicated supervision will be rolled out to 25 of the biggest schemes next month, with this expanded to more than 60 over the next 12 months. Chief executive Lesley Titcomb had first announced the plans for these "pathfinder" schemes at PA's sister publication Professional Pension's Pensions and Benefits UK conference in June. Under a separate pilot scheme, a further 50 DB schemes...

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