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Rishi Sunak is the only candidate in the race to become the next Conservative leader and prime minister to unequivocally support current plans for the UK to be net zero for carbon...

Pensions minister Guy Opperman will establish a minister-led taskforce to identify  “reliable data and metrics” to help schemes take social issues into account when investing members' money. This government response follows a...

The Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has today submitted its response to the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) further consultation on the draft Pensions Dashboards Regulations 2022. In its response, the...

20-20 Trustees has appointed Nicola Paul as a trustee director.  Paul joins from Gemmels Financial Services. She has more than 30 years’ industry experience — working for a range of trustee and...

The Pensions Scams Industry Group has appointed Christine Sawyer to be the new chair of its Pensions Scams Industry Forum (PSIF). She replace Tommy Burns, who has help the position since the...

Nest has appointed HarbourVest Partners to help the pension scheme invest in private equity. The new private equity mandate will help Nest invest at least £1.5bn in this asset class by early...

Goddard Perry Employee Benefits has joined Grid. Goddard Perry will profit from updates from Grid on market and legal changes in addition to networking opportunities. Goddard Perry director Mark Pattison says: “As...

Canada Life has appointed Cath Goddard as its head of data, insight and customer relationship management. Goddard has over 25 years of experience in data science and insight-driven jobs. She has also...

The benchmark average for what is considered a ‘healthy’ annuity rate for someone age 65 has almost reached 6 per cent, according to Canada Life. According to the research, recent positive rate...

There is a link between the relative generosity of transfer values and the volume of transfers out in Transfer values offered by Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes, according to LCP. The new...