The report, which examines the investment strategy and performance of nine major defaults, found the offerings of Royal London, Standard Life, Fidelity, Aviva and Legal & General were generally more diversified than...
Now: Pensions revealed poor performance over three years when compared to the other 24 defaults in the Corporate Adviser Master Trust Defaults report. Its default returned 2.4 per cent annualised in the...
Auto-enrolment defaults lack sophistication in their investment design and this is in large part down to a misguided focus on cost. Employers, consultants and advisers need to switch their focus from cost...
After contribution levels, investment performance is arguably the biggest determinant of outcomes in retirement for today’s DC savers. That performance will to a large extent be determined by the asset allocation decisions...
Pointing to figures from Corporate Adviser’s Master Trust Defaults report, which showed that the average auto-enrolment default, across a pool of 25 funds covering more than 12 million pension savers, has returned...
In its provisional decision report published today, part of its Investment Consultants Market Investigation, the CMA says indicators of low engagement with investment outcomes by DC schemes raise a risk to the financial...
The new fund will make up one of the asset class building blocks in the pension scheme’s default strategy, and has been designed to cater for Nest’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements....
The new group will be formed over the summer with a launch planned for autumn, when the full IDWG report, including templates, will be released. This pause in the publication of the...
The research, which analyses the investment returns, volatility and asset allocation strategy of default funds through growth, derisking and immediately pre-retirement, found that investors five years from state retirement age saw average...
Publishing its Retirement Outcomes Review today, the FCA says retirees putting pension withdrawals into cash could be getting 37 per cent extra income by investing in a mix of assets. It wants...
