Regulations facilitating collective defined contribution (CDC) schemes need to be made more flexible to make them fairer to younger people and reduce intergenerational cross-subsidies warns LCP. As the Government’s consultation on the...
The value of DB transfers is rising back towards the record highs seen last year, according to the latest data from XPS Pensions Group. The group’s Transfer Value Index rose sharply during...
Aon has launched a new tool for trustees and scheme sponsors to help them explore how a collective defined contribution scheme (CDC) might meet their future needs. The tool is designed for...
Risk transfer volumes are expected to exceed £8bn in the first half of 2021, but this is below expected levels, according to new analysis by Hymans Robertson. The pension consultants have looked...
LCP is urging trustees not to underestimate the challenges of climate change regulation, as a new survey from the pension consultants shows more than one in four DB schems are aiming for just “minimum...
Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has appointed Matt Dodds to lead its UK Client Data Services within its pensions administration business. Dodd joins from ITM where he was a director. In this new role...
The financial health of the UK’s defined benefit schemes failed to improve over the last quarter according to Legal & General Investment Management’s defined benefit (DB) health tracker. It points out that...
It has been clear for many years that our domestic pension and long-term institutional assets have not been investing as much as they should and could in more diversified sources of return...
The prime minister and chancellor have challenged UK pension schemes to back Britain’s “entrepreneurial spirit” by increasing investment into new green technology and unlisted research start-ups. In a letter to institutions published...
The pension dashboard fiasco continues to roll on. The scope seems to be continually cut so something can be delivered in line with the latest “timeline“. Apparently, we might get something up...
