The government’s drive to benchmark investment performance and target poor performance highlights a number of challenges for the DC pensions sector – how much weight to be given to past performance, and...
The Government has introduced a raft of legislation in recent years, designed to improve outcomes for pension scheme members. But this could prove ineffective without legislative action to make it easier to...
With growth in the DC pensions sector accelerating, the workplace pensions market is, 12 years on from the introduction of auto-enrolment, entering a new phase. As the market has matured, there is...
Group protection sales may be on the up, with 900,000 new members covered on these workplace policies last year, but the new chair of the trade body, Group Risk Development (Grid) Colin...
More than 2.5 million people are unable to work due to long-term sickness, with the Health Foundation forecasting that the number of working-age people living with major illness is set to grow...
Conservative losses in recent local and mayoral elections, a recent string of by-election defeats and Labour extending its leads in the polls have led many to predict that Sir Keir Starmer will...
Long-term asset funds were first heralded by the then Chancellor Rishi Sunak in November 2020, as part of his plans for the post-Covid recovery — although much of the groundwork for these...
Falling inflation, rising wages and the whiff of an interest rate cut suggest the worst of the cost of living crisis is behind us. But with the Financial Conduct Authority’s research showing...
Group risk underwriters remain remarkably upbeat, despite the potential for the NHS crisis to boost claims. And the fact that intermediaries have few gripes to express about their activities might suggest their...
Like most large pension providers Scottish Widows is enjoying stellar growth, with auto-enrolment helping boost its assets under management from £32 billion to £92 billion in recent years. But Scottish Widows workplace...
