Aegon is investing £3bn of its workplace default fund into a new range of BlackRock’s ESG index funds — effectively doubling exposure to sustainable investments for growth stage investors. Growth stage investors...
The National Pension Trust is launching a new sustainable default strategy. This shift to its default strategy will affect around 44,000 members invested in this master trust. In total around £978m of...
One in three DB schemes are using the GMP equalisation programme to improve member options available at retirement, according to new research. Aon’s latest ‘Member Options Survey’ shows that a growing number...
Five years after the British Steel Pension Scheme scandal first erupted and an end to the saga is in sight for thousands of steelworkers wrongly advised to give up valuable guaranteed pensions....
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is using emergency powers to prevent financial advice firms from disposing of assets to avoid paying compensation to members of the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS). The...
One in every five people is at risk of leaving retirement planning too late, according to Hargreaves Lansdown. According to a Hargreaves Lansdown client study of 400 customers conducted in January 2022,...
One in three or 33 per cent advised families use the same financial adviser as another generation of their family or in-laws, according to M&G Wealth. According to the second edition of...
Many pension savers don't understand what they've signed up for, what their pension benefits are, or what they actually mean, according to the findings of a recent survey. The majority of respondents,...
Changes to the IR35 rules in April 2021 have clearly resulted in some self-employed workers joining company payrolls. But overall, the numbers of contractors, freelancers and other ‘non-traditional workers’ have been skyrocketing....
Presenteeism - the pressure employees feel to be ‘present’ at all times while working - is pervasive within UK workplaces. Research we undertook after the end of lockdown revealed that 35 per...
