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TPR urges trustees to treat member data as ‘strategic asset’ ahead of dashboards deadline


By Callum Conway

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has called on trustees to treat member data as their most important “strategic asset”, after its review revealed inconsistent approaches to data quality and warned that some schemes remain at risk of failing to meet their dashboards duties.

Publishing the findings of its engagement programme, alongside updated guidance on member data quality, TPR said that although dashboards preparation has driven “significant progress”, some schemes have still not put in place the basic controls set out by the regulator in 2010


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