LCP has appointed experts Amlan Roy and Mark Watts to its investment team. Watts who has experience serving on various boards including executive and non-executive positions, led the FCA’s DB and DC...
It is predicted that up to £200bn of Defined Contribution (DC) assets might be allocated to private debt investments by the end of the decade, according to analysis by Hymans Robertson. The...
Nearly half or 46 per cent of financial advisers report clients withdrawing funds to cover essential bills and address immediate income shortfalls, according to Standard Life. The research by Standard Life also...
Investors have been puzzled this year as an inverted US yield curve, alongside economist forecasts and CEO surveys, signalled an impending recession, while the outperformance of risk assets such as equities and...
Economists predict a trend reversal as earnings growth is poised to outpace price inflation for the first time in 14 months, ahead of the official release of statistics by the Office for...
The Smith & Nephew UK pension fund has completed a £260m buy-in deal with Rothesay. The deal secures the benefits for all remaining uninsured members of the fund, including 1,885 pensioners and...
The average time for UK pension schemes to buy out rises to 5.2 years in July 2023, according to analysis from Barnett Waddingham. The monthly DB End Gauge index from Barnett Waddingham...
The Pension Protection Fund's 7800 Index (PPF) shows that the aggregate surplus of the 5,131 schemes is estimated to have increased over the month to £446.1bn at the end of July 2023,...
David Fairs has joined Scottish fintech firm Guiide as a new strategic adviser. Fairs spent four years with TPR, during which time he oversaw the implementation of several important policy recommendations during...
Quantum Advisory has launched a new cyber security training service designed to assist trustees in acquiring the essential skills to prevent cyber-attacks by simulating potential attacks. The most typical cyber security attacks...
