The Financial Conduct Authority has finalised rules which extend the role of Independent Governance Committees in workplace pensions. For the first time IGCs will be responsible for overseeing a pension’s provider approach...
Nest is testing more stringent environmental targets as a way to protect investors from the the risks posed by climate change. The UK’s biggest master trust, which looks after the pension of...
Smart Pension has been appointed as the preferred provider for Guernsey’s new auto-enrolled pension scheme. All employees living and working in Guernsey will be enrolled into the Your Island Pension Scheme in...
Trustees need to actively engage with impact investing if they want to deliver financial returns for members while meeting social and environmental targets, according to the latest report from Aon. However, rather...
Now: Pensions has been beset by a host of administrative problem during the rollout of auto-enrolment, leading to it requesting to be removed from The Pensions Regulator’s authorised master trust list, and...
Maria Nazarova-Doyle is understood to be leaving Mercer to join Lloyds Banking Group to head up the pensions investment operations of Scottish Widows. Nazarova-Doyle, who joined Mercer when it acquired JLT Group...
More than a third (34 per cent) of trustees are taking steps to ensure members get professional financial advice at retirement, according to new research. Pensions consultancy Hymans Robertson says this is...
The burden of pension cost regulation is disproportionately falling on master trusts, according to new analysis. The People’s Pension claims pensions regulation is “unfairly” subsidised by master trusts. It says that the...
Before freedom and choice, the workplace pensions landscape was considerably more predictable than it is today. Employers who offered a defined benefit arrangement would pay their employees a scheme pension on their retirement....
Legal & General has doubled its DC assets under management in less than four years, extending its position as the biggest DC pension provider in the UK, figures from the Corporate Adviser...
