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Just 4.2 per cent of listed UK shares are owned by pension and insurance funds— the lowest proportion on record according to new data from the Office of National Statistics.  The proportion...

The controversial issue of whether defined contribution (DC) pensions schemes should embrace the 2 and 20 performance fee structures common in the world of private equity was a key area of debate...

TPT Retirement Solutions has appointed Louise Stokes to be its new head of finance.  Stokes is a chartered accountant with more than 10 years experience in accountancy and fund administration. She has...

The controversial issue of whether defined contribution (DC) pensions schemes should embrace the 2 and 20 performance fee structures common in the world of private equity was a key area of debate...

I am a fan of adding private assets to DC default portfolios. My enthusiasm is based upon evidence from other institutional investors that broadening the asset classes in which they invest is...

Falling levels of home ownership are opening a fault line under the retirement income security of more than a million pensioner households with the proportion in private rented housing set to triple,...

Guiide has appointed Ruston Smith as chair of its board. Smith has more than 35 years of senior executive and non-executive experience in the retail, pensions and asset management industry. He currently holds...

UK employers contributed £38.6bn into workplace pensions last year, according to the latest data from the Department of Work and Pensions.  The data showed that the employees in the private sector contributed...

The government has issued the new Finance Bill which contains provisions to formally abolish the lifetime allowance (LTA) on pensions.  The abolition of this LTA was initially included in last year’s Spring...

Pension schemes have given a cautious welcome to changes made by the Financial Conduct Authority to its final rules on the new sustainability disclosure requirement (SDR). These new SDR rules will come...