Phoenix Group has become a signatory to the UN-supported Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI), confirming its commitment to including environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investment decision making and ownership. As at...
The sad news that the fashion retailer Arcadia Group is set to enter administration will be a blow to its thousands of workers and pension scheme members. But there are four key...
Dalriada Trustees has appointed Tiziana Perrella as a professional trustee. Perrella has more than 20 years’ experience as an ‘endgame specialist’, offering advice to both trustees and schemes across the DB and...
Aon has published a new guide to help improving understanding of diversity and inclusion considerations among pension scheme trustees and members. This paper looks at how these issues can impact decision making...
Trustees have a false sense of confidence in their long-term strategy with nine out of 10 believing they are prepared for the future, but a similar proportion having had to change tack...
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has raised a supplementary levy due to rising claims, which will raise costs for advisers and wealth managers. This £92m supplementary levy was announced in the FSCS’s...
A technical change to the way the inflation index is calculated, as announced alongside the Spending Review, is an unlikely candidate for grabbing people’s attention. But if you’re one of the millions...
£100bn has been wiped off the value of index linked gilts and other RPI-linked assets by the Chancellor’s decision to dump the retail price index in favour of CPIH, says Hymans Robertson....
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...
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...
