Ireland's National Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Authority (NAERSA) has been urged to replace its proposed 13-week lookback assessment for occupational pension scheme exemptions from MyFutureFund with an overall scheme quality test, assessing the total value of benefits over a period of at least one year.

Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF) chief executive, Joyce Brennan, and Irish Institute of Pensions Management (IIPM) president, Aaron Gaynor, called for the change in a letter to NAERSA chief executive, Dermot Griffin, following a meeting they had where they initially raised the proposal




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