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The job offers are accepted, new starters join the ranks of a company and they go into their workplace pension scheme. Brilliant – job done! In fact, it’s just the start. Many...

Corporate Adviser won a brace of awards at the Willis Towers Watson Media Awards yesterday, with wins in both the publications and individual journalist categories. Corporate Adviser was named Pensions Publication of...

I have long considered that the increase in women’s State Pension Age may have created injustice and hardship, but it is not clear this qualifies as discrimination. I believe there is a...

Broadstone has appointed Christopher Rice as a senior actuarial director in its Bristol office. Rice has over 20 years of experience working with UK pension schemes and joins from Capita where he...

Today the number of single-employer DC trust schemes in existence is already less than half that of a decade ago, yet TPR data shows more than £33bn remains outside authorised master trusts,...

Employee benefits software company Cloud8 has appointed Dipa Mistry Kandola as its new client strategy director.  Mistry Kandola will also join the firm’s board of directors.  In this new role Mistry Kandola...

Aon has appointed six of its senior employees to be partners in the global business.  Among those appointed are Tony Britton, who currently leads the strategy for Aon’s UK DC product suits,...

Corporate credit downgrades caused by the Covid crisis present a serious challenge for UK pension funds, according to Axa Investment Managers.  Since the start of the pandemic rating agencies have downgraded more...

Defined contribution (DC) pension schemes are being encouraged to invest in a more diverse range of long-term assets, including illiquid products such as venture capital and green infrastructure, through proposals published by...

Trustees of sub-£100m single-employer defined contribution (DC) schemes will be forced to consolidate if they are assessed as not giving good value to members, under draft rules proposed by the Department for...