Scheme-specific benchmarks can give employers and trustees a false sense of comfort whereas industrywide comparisons can build broader understanding of performance, said delegates at a recent Corporate Adviser debate on investment strategy....
Research by Corporate Adviser Intelligence has revealed massive differences in returns, meaning some unlucky savers could end up significantly worse off in retirement due to their employer's choice of pension scheme. View...
An as yet unnamed new-to-market master trust has applied for authorisation, bringing the total of pending applications up to 33, the Pensions Regulator (TPR) has confirmed. The announcement has fuelled rumours that...
The funding, through crowdfunding platform Seedrs, values the company at £3.47m, and will go towards developing technology to enable AgeWage to generate tens of millions of value-for-money scores for consumers’ pension pots...
Called ClearGlass, the new service is designed to make the new cost transparency regime easy for pension schemes, trustees, consultants and asset managers. The service has been established by Sier, who is...
As today’s master trusts evolve into the asset-rich behemoths of tomorrow, competition between them is set to become increasingly intense. Deeper member insights, intelligent defaults and investment innovation will all play a...
Pension schemes will be compelled to supply data to the pension dashboard in a phased rollout that will see big DC schemes enrolled first, the government has confirmed. Publishing its response to...
The FCA’s Retirement Outcomes Review aims to address concerns that people won’t manage their money sensibly within pension freedoms and could end up making a mess of their retirement. So what are...
Margaret Thatcher once claimed that “There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families”. Since then the collectivism of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes...
Standard Life is increasing the risk on its Active Plus and Passive Plus range of default funds, with risk profile 3 offering increasing its equity content by 5 per cent per cent....
