The UK’s fast-maturing defined benefit (DB) market has seen a decline in total fiduciary mandates assets remaining flat for the first time since 2008, according to research from Isio. Buy-ins more than...
Parallel Employee Benefits’ CEO Dipa Mistry Kandola has been named director of the year at the 2025 Institute of Directors (IoD) England Awards. In a LinkedIn post, a company spokesperson said: "This...
The Pensions Regulator has identified progress on data cleansing ahead of pensions dashboards but also highlighted areas where further work is required before schemes connect next year. According to TPR, most schemes...
Websites for financial services organisations such as the FCA and MoneyHelper were knocked offline on Tuesday following reported problems at US internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. Cloudflare, a global content delivery network operating...
M&G Investments has appointed Andrew Reid to be head of UK institutional distribution. In this role he will lead the team engaging with DC and DB pensions schemes, Local Government Pensions Schemes...
Smart Pension has acquired the WS Stakeholder pension scheme from Waystone Management (UK) Limited. The WS Stakeholder Pension Scheme has transferred around 19,000 members and £580 million in assets under management (AUM)...
Strong sponsor covenant remains the most critical factor for those looking to run on DB schemes, with a view to releasing surplus funds. This was the key finding of a recent poll...
More than a third of women face poverty in retirement, according to Scottish Widows’ latest Women and Retirement Report. The report shows that 58 per cent of women at or near retirement...
Just half of older workers are on track for ‘pension adequacy’, according to Hargreaves Lansdown’s savings and resilience barometer Using data from this survey, HL looked at whether people’s pensions are on...
Aegon UK now has £1bn in its long-term asset funds (LTAFs), within its largest workplace default strategy. The pension provider has integrated three LTAFs into workplace default, the Universal Balanced Collection (UBC),...
