Autoenrolment.co.uk Master Trust (Smart Pension) and the Lewis Workplace Pension Trust are the latest two master trusts to achieve authorisation, the Pensions Regulator has confirmed. This brings the total number of master trusts to...
LEBC Group has agreed with the FCA to stop advising on transfers out of defined benefit schemes, raising questions over adviser capacity to implement transfer exercises. A statement from LEBC says it...
Over the past couple of years, the number of pension schemes mentioning environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, when talking about their investment strategies, has rocketed. It’s arguably been the biggest topic...
An employer has been hit with a £350,000 fine for failing to fully comply with its pension duties, The Pensions Regulator has confirmed. The unnamed company, highlighted in TPR’s quarterly compliance and enforcement...
Scheme-specific benchmarks can give employers and trustees a false sense of comfort whereas industrywide comparisons can build broader understanding of performance, said delegates at a recent Corporate Adviser debate on investment strategy....
One of the key rules of the digital economy is that consumer expectations are set by their last good online experience. Millions of people thought a Blackberry was a smart phone until...
Millions of middle-aged employees have no idea how much they need to be saving to ensure a comfortable retirement, according to the latest survey by Aviva. The insurer found 64 per cent...
Financial firms typically invest twice as much money into employees’ pension, when compared to other industries according to new research. The study - by Profile Pensions - looked at average employer contribution...
There is a huge variation in the construction and performance of leading default funds, according to the latest pensions report from Punter Southall Aspire. Its third annual DC Default Fund report looks...
Nest is the latest pension provider to join the Star initiative, an industry-wide group aimed at driving up standards in the pension industry, and reducing transfer times. This ABI-hosted pensions working group...
