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Cardano, the provider behind the Now: Pensions master trust, has appointed LifeSight's David Bird as head of DC platform and Stefan Lundbergh as head of DC design. In his new role, Bird, who...

The wealthiest households have reduced their spending by an estimated £23bn during lockdown,  potentially leading to large savings  — according to new economic calculations by the New Policy Institute.  This is income that...

The UK’s largest pension scheme has announced it will be divesting from its tobacco, coal and weapons holdings over the next two years.  USS - the Universities Superannution Schemes - currently has...

More that one in three workers (35 per cent) have continued to work while unwell during lockdown according to a new research by Canada Life.  The survey found that almost half of...

Transaction costs make up to 37 per cent of a pension scheme’s costs, with the overall total cost of ownership (TCO) for UK schemes standing at on average 70bps, according to governance...

Following Rishi Sunak’s first budget statement on 11 March 2020, the claim allowance was raised to £6 per week to cover household bills incurred while working remotely – effective from 6 April 2020....

Pension scheme chair’s statements should be required by law to include reference to the quality of their data say independent data consultants, ITM. Responding to the PLSA’s publication of a new template...

Building default investment options for defined contribution (DC) members is really the art of creating a process that will allow asset allocations to change over time, reflecting the changing needs of members...

Mercifully, the fact that group risk providers don’t pay different rates of commission spares us from the brouhaha so prevalent in the private medical insurance (PMI) field, where commission rates can differ significantly...

Reports of the death of pensions tax relief have, like Mark Twain nearly wrote, been much exaggerated. I’m more guilty than most, given I’ve written a lot of those reports, inevitably on...