After contribution levels, investment performance is arguably the biggest determinant of outcomes in retirement for today’s DC savers. That performance will to a large extent be determined by the asset allocation decisions...
Pointing to figures from Corporate Adviser’s Master Trust Defaults report, which showed that the average auto-enrolment default, across a pool of 25 funds covering more than 12 million pension savers, has returned...
In its provisional decision report published today, part of its Investment Consultants Market Investigation, the CMA says indicators of low engagement with investment outcomes by DC schemes raise a risk to the financial...
The new fund will make up one of the asset class building blocks in the pension scheme’s default strategy, and has been designed to cater for Nest’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements....
The new group will be formed over the summer with a launch planned for autumn, when the full IDWG report, including templates, will be released. This pause in the publication of the...
The research, which analyses the investment returns, volatility and asset allocation strategy of default funds through growth, derisking and immediately pre-retirement, found that investors five years from state retirement age saw average...
Publishing its Retirement Outcomes Review today, the FCA says retirees putting pension withdrawals into cash could be getting 37 per cent extra income by investing in a mix of assets. It wants...
Workchain Ltd owners and directors Phil Tong and Adam Hinkley encouraged five senior staff at the company to get the temporary workers out of the scheme so the company could avoid making...
The Pension Regulator is actively supporting – if not quite championing - pension scheme consolidation for both DB and DC pensions. For DB the aim is to increase the financial resilience of...
The Environmental Audit Committee’s findings from its green finance enquiry, which found that pension scheme trustees’ fiduciary duty is often misinterpreted as a duty to maximise short-term returns, has also criticised the FCA’s reluctance...
