Patrick Heath-Lay, CEO for People’s Pension The Commission is right to recognise that the UK's main pensions challenge is improving the adequacy and fairness of the pensions system in the context of...
Lewis Daley, workplace investment lead, Royal London In DC pensions, scale is no longer a strategic ambition – it’s becoming the price of admission. The proposed Pension Schemes Bill’s £25 billion default...
Louise Wheeler, head of UK DC solutions, Aon Investments Why scale matters in the race for better retirement outcomes The UK defined contribution pensions market is evolving quickly as assets grow, schemes...
We know that the UK has retirement income challenges but so does the United States – maybe more so - and they are looking for ideas. Together we spoke, in April, at...
If financial services had an oath, perhaps it should be this: ‘First protect’. Medicine is associated with the principle of ‘first, do no harm’. It is not literally the Hippocratic Oath, although...
The conversation has evolved over the last few years – shifting from “should we?” to “how do we do this well?” – and increasingly towards the role private assets could play beyond...
How important is scale when it comes to DC investment into private markets? Scale is critical to enable better outcomes. At smaller sizes, private markets exposure is often constrained to pooled or...
Economic inactivity due to poor health is costing the UK £212 billion a year, equivalent to 7% of GDP. Sickness is at an all time high, with employees now taking off nearly...
The challenge our industry faces is not only getting people to save more money for retirement but empowering them to make better decisions with it, particularly when they begin turning their pension...
The youth employment crisis that Britain now faces has forced all of us to rethink what we thought we knew. Take pensions. The financial press - and financial services industry - has...
