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The 30-minute pijler-2 audit every HR team should run.

Five questions, one spreadsheet, one phone call to the existing provider. The output is a defensible answer to the question "what is our pension benefit actually doing for our team?"

Sofia LemairePartnerships · Warren4 March 20265 min read

The five questions.

  1. 01
    What is the projected net capital per member at 67?

    After all costs, in real euros.

  2. 02
    What is the all-in annual cost as one number?

    Sum of every layer. If it requires three statements, that is itself the finding.

  3. 03
    How many members opened anything from the provider last quarter?

    Engagement floor for the benefit.

  4. 04
    What does our last engagement survey say about financial stress?

    Compare against Vlerick and Deloitte benchmarks.

  5. 05
    Could we defend the current line item to an incoming CFO next month?

    If the defence stalls in paragraph one, the audit is done.

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