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Speakers
Maggie Craig FCA
Anne Hunt Warburtons and DC Council Member
Chair
Jerry Gandhi DC Council Member
The ‘Guidance Guarantee’. How, what, when and how much?
Live voting session
46% 51%
3%
1. To what extent are you ready to manage your obligations in
the new post Guidance Guarantee regime?
1. Already planning to improve support to members in addition to any new
requirements
2. Will wait to see before we plan how we support in addition to any new
requirements
3. Will only do what is required
Live
voting
– final
results
53% 23%
24%
2. How much will you plan (or be prepared) to spend to
support members with guidance when the new flexibility is
available (leading up to or at retirement)?
1. We will only do what we are required to do
2. Happy to provide support up to £100.00 per member (generic support etc.)
3. We would plan to improve engagement and may spend more than £150 per member
Live
voting
– final
results
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The Guidance Guarantee
Maggie Craig
Acting Head of Savings, Investment and Distribution Financial Conduct Authority
Agenda
• Budget changes are a game changer
• The Guidance Guarantee
• What have we been doing and where are we at?
• What does this mean for pension schemes?
Budget changes are a game changer
• What will people do with their pot?
• Alternative products will develop
• More complex decisions, but not for all
A new way of thinking
Eng ag e me n t Time Eng ag e me n t TimeThe Guidance Guarantee
• Treasury’s key strategic decisions:
• Service design and implementation of the guidance service
• Designating the organisations that will deliver the guidance
• FCA role:
• Set, maintain and monitor the standards
• Collect levy
The Guidance Guarantee (cont.)
• Designed to help people make the most of their pension savings
• Not designed to be financial advice
• Provided through a variety of delivery channels
What have we been doing and where are we at?
• Consultation paper covering (closed 22 Sept.):
• Standards for delivery partners
• Proposed rule changes for firms – signpost
• Levy proposals
• 150 responses – policy statement in late autumn
What does this mean for pension schemes?
• Requirement to signpost to the guidance
Other issues and next steps
• FCA policy statement – late autumn
• Guidance Service – April 2015
• Pension reforms and challenges for April 2015
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The ‘Guidance Guarantee’.
How, what, when and how much?
Anne Hunt
Warburtons Limited
What we’re going to cover?
• Company profile and geographical locations
• DC Plan – Membership/Investment Profile
• Engagement Project Team
• Engagement Plan and Priorities
• Pensions Talk
• Engagement Roadmap
• Fidelity Retirement Services
• Guidance Guarantee
• What is the impact and cost
Company Profile
• Established in 1876 by George, Thomas and Ellen Warburton from a
tiny bakers in Bolton
• After 138 years, the Company is still a privately family owned
business – actively managed by the fifth generation since 1991: Jonathan, Ross and Brett
• The largest family owned bakery in the UK, employing 4500 people at
12 bakeries and 15 depots across the UK
• Now recognised as Britain’s favourite baker, having double in size in
the last decade with a turnover in excess of £500 million a year
• As the UK’s number one bakery brand, a quarter of all bakery
12 Bakeries 15 Depots
Geographical Locations
Engagement Plan
Year 12014/15
Launch Engagement Campaign Refresh existing materialsMove Pensions Talk publication to November
Promote PlanViewer Create PlanViewer user Guide Set measures of engagement Year 2
2015/16
Investment review/relaunch Refresh/review Plan booklets for Budget and investment changesPromote benefit statements
Focus on Retirement and Joining processes Develop interactive learning sessions (segmented in line with Roadmap)
Recruit/refresh pension champions, scope role and train
Year
3
2016/17
Contribution campaign (trailing auto enrolment increases)
Refine/review interactive learning sessions
Review annual benefit statements
Review use of PlanViewer
Review effectiveness of pension champions Promote new tools
Engagement Priorities – What next?
• Refreshing our existing member communications
• Welcome to Warburtons Pensions booklet to be updated
• Main Focus on joining and retirement process
• Welcome letter – auto enrolment
• Step by step guide to Retirement
• Explore your options – interactive pdf
• Presentations at sites
Fidelity Retirement Services
• Wake up letter – 5 years before selected retirement age
• Letter – 2 years before selected retirement age
• Letter – 6 months before selected retirement age
• Annuity Purchase – Open Market Option
• Income Drawdown
• Cash
• Fidelity Retirement Services – team of specialists
• Access to advice and website
• Non advised
Guidance Guarantee – what is the impact and cost?
Sc
hemes/E
mplo
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Tight deadline for finalisation and implementation Rewriting existing communications due to signposting requirements Communicate changes tomembers
Training and development of in-house teams
Resources for implementation and on-going support
Guidance Guarantee – what is the impact and cost?
Sc
hemes/E
mplo
yer
Tight deadline for finalisation and implementation Rewriting existing communications due to signposting requirements Communicate changes tomembers
Training and development of in-house teams
Resources for implementation and on-going support Potential cost £100k
Pension
Pr
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Tight deadline for finalisation and implementationRewriting existing communications due to signposting requirements Compliance with additional
disclosure requirements
Potential impact on fund charges due to additional costs
Resources for implementation and on-going support
Guidance Guarantee
Membe r Scheme/ Employer Guidance Guarantee IFA ProviderGuidance Guarantee
Membe r Scheme/ Employer Guidance Guarantee IFA Provider Member71% 11%
18%
3. Do you think members will make a decision based on the
Guidance and decide not to take independent financial
advice?
Yes No Unsure
Live
voting
– final
results
82%
12% 6%
0%
4. Who do you think members will contact first for Guidance?
1. Scheme/Employer 2. Plan Provider 3. Guidance Partner 4. An Independent Financial Advisor
Live voting – final results
41%
35% 24%
5. Do you think the guidance will lead to a better member
outcome?
Yes No Unsure
Live voting – final results
67% 13%
20%
6. Is there a risk that the Guidance could potentially be the
next mis‐selling?
Yes
No
Unsure