L&G extends lead as UK’s biggest DC pension provider
Legal & General has extended its lead as the biggest UK DC pensions provider, growing its assets to £98.8bn by the end of June 2020, up 14 per cent year on year,...
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Aviva Master Trust switches to fully-integrated ESG default
The Aviva Master Trust Trustees is adopting the ESG-integrated My Future Focus as the standard default investment strategy for the Aviva Master Trust The scheme’s trustees’ have formulated their own set of...
Communication hacks to boost employee engagement on pensions
Changing the language used to describe pensions could significantly boost employee engagement with retirement savings, according to new research. The survey, by Invesco, Nest Insight and maslansky + partners identified a number...
Fiduciary duties may prevent trustee action on climate change
One in two pension professional are concerned that trustees’ fiduciary duties are hindering their ability to address climate change effectively. These surprising results were in a poll taken at a resent XPS...
Smart Pension appoints new MD
Paul Bucksey will become the new managing director of Smart Pension workplace business. This appointment comes as part of a reorganisation of the business which sees Smart separate out its platform business...
Ditching RPI ‘would wipe 0.8pc off indexation’
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s rumoured plan to ditch Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation measure in tomorrow’s spending review could wipe around 0.8 per cent a year off payment increases. The Chancellor is rumoured...
Speculation of Govt tax raid on pensions surfaces again
Rumours that the chancellor will look to reduce higher rate tax relief on pensions, to help make cost savings in a post Covid environment, have surfaced again. There has been speculation that...
CA Master Trust and GPP Summit: Pressures build on scheme trustees
Trustees and IGCs will have an increasingly important role to play in the DC pension sector to ensure good outcomes for members. This was one of the main conclusions of a Q&A...
DC schemes respond to BoE plans to boost illiquid investments
The pensions industry gave a cautious welcome to comments by the Bank of England governor indicating support for looser regulations to enable DC schemes to invest in illiquid infrastructure and property assets....
CA Master Trust conference: Cost analysis fails to show benefits of ESG
There is little evidence that ESG-badged pension funds are delivering superior returns, although they cost significantly more according to Chris Sier, founder of ClearGlass Analytics and a former chair of the FCA...
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