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A preliminary opinion from the Advocate General of the ECJ in the case of Grenville Hampshire v The Board of the Pension Protection Fund argues that compensation should be set at at...

There are strong forces of change affecting asset management in the UK, some of which are global in nature, others are UK specific. Among these forces, let me start with Brexit. There...

River and Mercantile Group says the alignment of a consistent brand across the group - which includes River and Mercantile Asset Management and River and Mercantile Derivatives - reflects the increasing degree...

Stewart Bevan is head of pension product development at Simplitium, a transparency services provider. A teenage summer intern project with now-FCA Institutional Disclosure Working Group chair Dr Chris Sier gave him his...

Based in Mercer’s Liverpool office, Holden will join the UK DB leadership team, working alongside Mercer’s Chief Actuarial Officer, Jenny Condron. Holden joined Mercer in Liverpool in 2002 from PwC’s actuarial team. In 2010, she...

  The consultancy highlights the CMA's finding that 88 per cent of the FM market is dominated by organisations combining investment consultancy and fiduciary management, with clients not always getting the best...

The well-publicised problems with advice on transfers from the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) has ben arguably the most high-profile test to date of the pension freedom and choice policy. While sponsor...

The Work and Pensions Committee has today published a report calling for all pension providers to offer a single default drawdown option and all schemes, including DB, to be required to give...

Publishing new rules on pension transfer advice, the FCA has launched a consultation seeking views on additional changes, including adviser charging structures. In June 2017, the FCA proposed changes to the rules...

The firm’s latest quarterly report shows that 42 companies could have settled their pension deficits in full by making a payment of up to one year’s dividend. The ratio of total dividends...