Independent Pension Analysis Limited – which trades as O&M Pension Advice - is to cease its activities as an introductory pension transfer advisory service from 1stJuly. O&M Pension Advice is a trading...
There are strong forces of change affecting asset management in the UK, some of which are global in nature, others are UK specific. Among these forces, let me start with Brexit. There...
River and Mercantile Group says the alignment of a consistent brand across the group - which includes River and Mercantile Asset Management and River and Mercantile Derivatives - reflects the increasing degree...
How choice architecture will influence opt-outs from auto-enrolment How schemes, advisers and other member-facing entities will absorb and communicate new costs and charges data generated by fund managers following Mifid 2 and...
Stewart Bevan is head of pension product development at Simplitium, a transparency services provider. A teenage summer intern project with now-FCA Institutional Disclosure Working Group chair Dr Chris Sier gave him his...
Presenting its technological roadmap to journalists recently, Smart Pension said it was in advanced talks with around six schemes, and said it expected many more master trust providers to exit the market...
The Oliver Wyman report says that despite the steady consolidation in the corporate pensions market and increased contributions under auto-enrolment, profitability will remain a challenge for the handful of life insurers still...
Called Drip-feed Drawdown, the product aims to support advisers by making it easier for them to manage their clients’ phased retirement in a tax-efficient manner. Widows has also recently launched four new...
We have 9m more people saving off the back of inertia, but contribution rates are low and we need to get this generation saving more, and that means engaging people with their...
The number of fund managers pushing clients to embrace environmental, social and governance investing has increased in recent years. Asset managers claim that environmental factors like climate change, social factors such as...
