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Fixed income specialists are not predicting a correction in bond markets, despite expectations that the current economic cycle will end soon. This was the result of a major global survey of fixed...

The Department of Work and Pension has approved plans for the Royal Mail to launch the UK’s first collective defined contribution (CDC) pension scheme.  This confirmation was given in the DWP’s published...

The industry body - Group Risk Development (Grid) - found that only 27 per cent of employers surveyed identified the correct definition of a GCI as “a policy taken out by an...

It was always widely predicted that the workplace pension reforms and accompanying changes to remuneration for advisers would bring a dramatic slowdown in the switching of schemes between providers. The question now...

Chair of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, governor of the Pensions Policy Institute and MD of PTL, one of the most widely used professional independent trustees, Richard Butcher can accurately be described...

Neale made the comments ‘in a personal capacity’ at the UK Finance’s Retail Banking Summit.  He called for consumer protection to “increase significantly”, but added that he did not think this statutory ...

Welcome to www.capa-data.com, the new interactive website designed to help pensions professionals and others better understand the performance, risk and broader strategy of DC pensions. The site allows you to view and compare the...

End-of-year volatility had a marked effect on the UK’s workplace default pension funds in the last quarter of 2018, with the average default delivering a 7.8 per cent annualised return over five...

The market has seen an explosion of wellbeing apps and service providers over recent years. Private medical insurance (PMI) providers could develop the role of aggregator and delivery vehicle for a range...

Aon has confirmed it will not proceed with a reported attempt to buy out Willis Towers Watson, in a proposed deal that would have created a massive employee benefits consultancy in the...