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Willis Towers Watson is calling for trustees to refocus priorities in order unlock “real ESG action” in UK pensions. The consultancy firm says spending an additional eight hours a year focused on...

The UK asset management and pensions sectors are well on the road towards getting greater transparency of investment costs and charges. Understanding the costs incurred through investing is important to deliver value for...

When data goes wrong in pensions, it can go very badly wrong. The case of Now: Pensions is instructive. It had to radically overhaul its administrative systems, ended up removed from The Pensions...

Further delays appear to have hit the pensions dashboard, with the group tasked with implementing this initiative confirming it will not be fully operational until 2023. This is the date by which...

The UK pension industry is divided and cautious about the potential benefits of the regulator’s proposed new DB funding code of practice.  At a recent Pension and Lifetime Saving Association session delegates...

New rules designed to protect company pension schemes could cost UK employers an extra £40bn over the next decade, according to new figures from LCP.  The consultancy firm has conducted an impact...

Millions of individuals around the country already face a daunting task saving enough for retirement. But the challenges of saving adequately for old age are set to get much tougher due to...

The £46bn Northern Local Government Pension Scheme (NLGPS) has become the latest major pension scheme to sign up to the Make My Money Matter (MMMM) pledge as part of its commitment to...

The Pensions Regulator has published new guidance for DB schemes considering consolidation into a new superfund. The guidance —  aimed at trustees and sponsoring companies — stresses that they need to be...

Covid-19 is exacerbating retirement insecurity across the globe and and is causing sustainability problems for the UK’s pension scheme. This was the conclusion from the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index which compares...