Does your pension scheme have accurate, automated benefit calculations? Does your pension scheme have a functioning member portal? Are your pension scheme administration processes as efficient as they could be? In order to get a good handle on t ..

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I do not mean to be all evangelical or anything, but I do seem to end up banging on about the need for better pensions data management practices far more than seems reasonable or necessary. I wrote my first blog (http://spenceandpartners.co.uk/ar ..

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The computer game, Minecraft is something of a cultural phenomenon. It has inspired YouTube channels, global conventions, Lego sets, a film, and even a religion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_World). The success of Minecraft can be attributed i ..

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With the publication of the Pensions Administration Standards Association’s (PASA) second tranche of guidance on GMP reconciliations, it is judgement day for my own attempt at a benchmarking checklist for the process (/news/a-contracted-out-rec ..

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Hot on the heels of the first tranche of guidance on GMP reconciliations from the Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA), I thought that I would take a stab at drafting my own service provider benchmarking checklist for pension schemes  ..

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Growing Pains Individuality seems to be something that nearly all tortured teenage souls strive for, but rarely obtain. Strangely enough, the same principle applies to pension scheme datasets, where unique identifiers for member records are frequ ..

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