The report, which examines the investment strategy and performance of nine major defaults, found the offerings of Royal London, Standard Life, Fidelity, Aviva and Legal & General were generally more diversified than...
Now: Pensions revealed poor performance over three years when compared to the other 24 defaults in the Corporate Adviser Master Trust Defaults report. Its default returned 2.4 per cent annualised in the...
Auto-enrolment defaults lack sophistication in their investment design and this is in large part down to a misguided focus on cost. Employers, consultants and advisers need to switch their focus from cost...
After contribution levels, investment performance is arguably the biggest determinant of outcomes in retirement for today’s DC savers. That performance will to a large extent be determined by the asset allocation decisions...
Pointing to figures from Corporate Adviser’s Master Trust Defaults report, which showed that the average auto-enrolment default, across a pool of 25 funds covering more than 12 million pension savers, has returned...
Altmann, who sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative peer, says the organisation’s technology can facilitate cheaper, more accurate administration of pensions, and says the pensions dashboard project, which the...
The new fund will make up one of the asset class building blocks in the pension scheme’s default strategy, and has been designed to cater for Nest’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements....
The research, which analyses the investment returns, volatility and asset allocation strategy of default funds through growth, derisking and immediately pre-retirement, found that investors five years from state retirement age saw average...
Publishing its Retirement Outcomes Review today, the FCA says retirees putting pension withdrawals into cash could be getting 37 per cent extra income by investing in a mix of assets. It wants...
The organisation says that there is no need to go beyond scrapping qualifying and band earnings and bringing auto-enrolment down to age 18, as a survey of 44,000 workplace pension members it...
