Legal & General Pathway funds will now take into account environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk factors as part of its stock selection process. As well as making these funds more sustainable,...
A Pensions Schemes Bill has been included in the Queen’s Speech today, which lays out the legislative plans for the forthcoming parliamentary session. This bill includes legislation to enable the pensions dashboard...
Enquiries to Aviva from employers and advisers looking to switch pension provider were up 60 per cent during the first half of 2019, compared to the first six months of last year....
After four years out of the employee benefits world, Nick Burns, the man who has headed PIFC, Bluefin and Capita Employee Benefits, is now back at the helm of Gallagher Benefit Services...
The ‘S’ in environmental, social and governance (ESG) is complex to implement in investment strategies, particularly in relation to companies that pay little tax because they tend to be the most profitable,...
The University of Oxford Pension Scheme is the latest master trust to gain authorisation from The Pensions Regulator. This now brings the total number of master trusts authorised to 34. Salvus Master...
The Queen’s Speech should include a “comprehensive” pensions bill, to pave the way for pensions dashboard, collective defined contribution pensions, as well as better treatment of non-taxpayers in auto-enrolment schemes. Aegon’s pension...
The Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) has renewed calls for the forthcoming pension bill to enable a rise to AE contributions, DB pensions to be simplified and for legislation to be included...
While almost one in two people have changed their spending habits in the last year to be more “ethically aware”, only 12.6 per cent have asked where there pension is invested, according...
The issue of ‘value for money’ in workplace pensions will be a regulatory priority for the year ahead, according to a presentation by the FCA at the Corporate Adviser Summit. The FCA’s...
