Pensions red tape risks trapping tens of thousands of pension savers in low returning funds, according to consultants LCP. The problem concerns savers in workplace pensions who have actively chosen to invest...
The coronavirus pandemic is likely to exacerbate the gender savings gap, with a greater proportion of women saying they will decrease pension contributions in the next six months. Recent research by Aegon...
Learning from other countries’ pension reforms is difficult to do as the political and economic context from which such systems emerge are often very different. This means that it is not usually...
As with several other regulatory initiatives, the implementation of investment pathways has been delayed due to Covid-19. The reform had been due to come into force in August, which would have meant investors following...
Salvus Master Trust has today announced that it has been selected as the replacement default scheme for the Ascot Lloyd Pension Trust. This master trust which was set up in 2010 exited...
Dalriada Trustees - one of the UK’s largest independent trustee firms - has appointed with Minerva Analystics to asses asset managers’ ESG and stewardship records. As part of this partnership Minerva will...
XPS Pensions Group has appointed Paul Armitage as the new head for its master trust, The National Pension Trust. Armitage, who was formerly head of distribution at NPT replaces Dave Hodges who...
Scottish Widows is investing £2bn from its pension portfolios into BlackRock’s new Climate Transition World Equity Fund. This is the first investment into this fund, which Scottish Widows helped design. The fund takes...
Only a minority of working adults (44 per cent) feel they understand enough about pensions to make decisions about their retirement, according to new data from the Office of National Statistics. Its...
Companies are warned that they could face fines if they reduce pension contributions, following the removal of government support for these payments. From the start of August, companies with staff on furlough...
