Finding common ground between providers and intermediaries on UK defined contribution (DC) default fund approaches is a tricky business. In the first camp, there are those who say long investment time horizons dictate...
UK defined benefit funds have long been allocating to what is broadly termed ‘alternative’ assets. According to the Pension Protection Fund’s Purple Book, UK private sector DB funds invested on average 15 per cent of...
Employee assistance programmes (EAPs) have been developing at such a pace that one could be forgiven for assuming that their race has already been run. After all, according to Institute for Employment Studies...
Interviewing Kenneth Clarke MP it is hard not to feel a sense of history. Anecdotes range from telling Margaret Thatcher that it was time to step down, to predicting terrorist atrocities in UK cities...
Throughout 2019 SMEs have experienced a raft of complexities and uncertainties that could affect their businesses. In the first half of 2019, we saw the minimum contribution on auto-enrolment schemes rise to...
Before freedom and choice, the workplace pensions landscape was considerably more predictable than it is today. Employers who offered a defined benefit arrangement would pay their employees a scheme pension on their retirement....
Legal & General has doubled its DC assets under management in less than four years, extending its position as the biggest DC pension provider in the UK, figures from the Corporate Adviser...
Advances in cancer treatment mean that more than twice as many people are beating the disease than in the 1970s. But, while the next generation of drugs and therapies should further improve...
With stigmas around mental health evaporating, more employees feel comfortable talking about their own problems in the workplace. While this is a major step forward, there’s still plenty of uncertainty around how...
Discussions about how to jump-start group risk and expand with new-to-market business have being going on for decades, but experts are now demonstrating much greater unanimity of thought. One point on which there...
