DC

Almost 300,000 people searched online to find out how much the state pension was worth, according to new analytics on the most popular pension searches on Google. Local Financial Advice, an independent...

Cushon has made three senior appointments, with hires from Aon, Mercer and Aegon, as it aims to deliver on ambitious growth plans.  The fintech workplace pensions and savings provider has hired Dom...

Almost 9 in 10 employers expect to struggle to find individuals prepared to become trustees with the growing regulatory burden leading to more employers turning to professional trustee options, according to new...

SEI has today announced the completion of its acquisition of Atlas, formerly Capita’s defined contribution (DC) master trust. SEI Master Trust and Atlas have a combined trust of approximately £2bn in assets...

We all love someone, right? And obviously, don’t be dying anytime soon, is quite an appealing ethos. But this is a big ‘do something now’ message to trustees, IGCs and providers. The...

In late September the UK government launched its first green gilt, raising £10bn from institutional investors in the process. This was a watershed move by the UK government and there is plenty of...

The FCA’s proposals on a new consumer duty come after several years of debate and deliberation. It stops short of imposing a fiduciary duty on financial services firms, but certainly raises expectations...

Performance fees — and higher fees generally — are not the main hurdle when it comes to including illiquid investments with DC portfolios, according to Nick Groom, head of UK DC strategy...

The industry should be confident that productive finance proposals designed to get DC schemes investing in less liquid assets will happen, unlike some other planned reforms of the pension industry.  Alan Mankikar,...

Each year pension savers are losing an estimated £700m by taking tax free cash too early, according to the latest research from LGIM. This is 300 times more a year than the...