DC

SPONSORED COMMENT With over £100bn of defined contribution (DC) assets, Legal & General is the largest DC pension provider in the UK. We conducted a five-year study on our members’ retirement choices...

More than one in four employers say employees have left their workplace pension scheme as a result of the Covid pandemic. There are concerns that this could unroll some of the gains...

One in eight adults aged 55-plus are planning to delay their retirement due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  This research, conducted by YouGov for Smart shows the financial effects of this health crisis. ...

Perhaps the greatest risk to pension scheme trustees and members is the low rate future currently being carved out. It is odd to suddenly be talking about low rates when they’ve been...

There is a lot of  talk about Big Data and its potential to make significant improvements in terms of both product design and engagement strategies, but few providers are offering this yet....

The soaring cost of professional indemnity insurance is impacting consumers ability to access pension freedoms, with a third seeing an increase of more than 50 per cent since last year. Research from...

Just 17 per cent of employers are using video conferencing for pension surgeries despite increased home working, research from Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing has shown. The research, which was conducted in...

Legal & General has extended its lead as the biggest UK DC pensions provider, growing its assets to £98.8bn by the end of June 2020, up 14 per cent year on year,...

The Aviva Master Trust Trustees is adopting the ESG-integrated My Future Focus as the standard default investment strategy for the Aviva Master Trust The scheme’s trustees’ have formulated their own set of...

Phoenix Group is launching a new ESG DC default solution for Standard Life schemes that tilts up green technology solutions by 50 per cent and reduces carbon intensity down by the same...