Economy

The UK’s largest companies have ploughed £200bn into their DB schemes since 2007 to avoid a drop in funding levels. However despite this large sum, pension consultants LCP say most of this...

Almost eight out of 10 (78 per cent) of pension funds expect markets to enter a commodity “super cycle” with the price of precious and industrial metals trading above their long-term price...

Fifty companies have signed up to Make My Money Matter’s new green pension charter, which is calling for a net zero pensions industry.  Signatories to this new charter include IKEA, Octopus Group,...

The Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) will develop a UK-wide pension framework, designed to support future policy analysis and decision making. This framework will track trends across the UK pensions sector and examine...

Value for money in pensions is tough to define. With most products and services we can judge value at the time - we look at the price and we can see enough...

Here’s a question: how often do you think about your impact on the environment? Perhaps with relative regularity, maybe when a news story breaks about deforestation or wild weather, worrying wildfires and...

The health of the UK’s Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes continues to improve, with these schemes now more financially robust than they were pre-Covid. Legal & General Investment Management DB Health Tracker...

FCA feedback statement 21/7 is another significant step towards enabling workplace savings to become the cornerstone of financial planning for the tens of millions who can no longer afford traditional financial advice....

The concept of ‘value for money’ is a subject of perennial debates across financial services, which seldom result in meaningful agreement on what the phrase means. This has not stopped regulators putting VFM,...

To mark the start of Mental Health Awareness week (May 10- 16th) employee benefits specialists and insurers are publishing new information to help employers better support their employees’ mental health in the...