Standard drops GARS from default as it dials up risk
Standard Life is increasing the risk on its Active Plus and Passive Plus range of default funds, with risk profile 3 offering increasing its equity content by 5 per cent per cent....
Pensions
Eleven master trusts ask for application extension
Eleven master trusts have asked the regulator for more time to submit their authorisation application, with the position of at least 18 more schemes uncertain. An update from the Pensions Regulator indicates...
Lloyds loses legal fight over £100bn investment mandate
Lloyds had awarded Aberdeen Asset Management the mandate to run these assets for its subsidiary Scottish Widows. But the bank served notice last February that it was terminating this agreement early, following...
Bond managers pessimistic about economic outlook
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...
Royal Mail given green light to launch CDC pension scheme
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...
Reasons to switch workplace pension provider
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...
Profile: PLSA chairman Richard Butcher on the importance of foresight
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...
Workplace pensions must “radically rethink” communications strategy
These were the conclusions from a panel of experts at a recent Defined Contribution Investment Forum Event, which pointed out many UK savers were “disengaged and disillusioned with pensions, and financial services...
Unregulated investments could fall through FSCS safety net
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 the new website for DC pension performance data
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...
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