Value for Money: Industry flags concerns over forward-looking metrics

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consultation process closed this week, as it continues to develop the proposed Value for Money (VfM) rulebook that the government hopes will strengthen and future-proof DC savings. Pension providers and trade bodies have widely welcomed the proposed system, but several have flagged concerns over issues such as forward-looking performance metrics and the absence of collective defined contribution arrangements from the rulebook. In its response, TPT Retirement Solutions argued that regulators needed to ensure that “forward-looking projections...