DC

Hill will join the regulator in November. She is currently director of market intelligence, data and analysis at the FCA. In her new role Hill will be responsible for implementing TPR’s tougher...

Pensions minister Guy Opperman MP told the House of Commons yesterday that collective DC offers ‘interesting new possibilities’ that could transform the pensions landscape to the benefit of consumers. Supporters of collective...

The provider is calling on asset managers to work with it to develop innovative new ways to bring private credit investment to DC savers at an affordable price. Nest says the traditional...

Experts are warning that high valuations, reflected in low dividend yields, and unencouraging prospects for global growth mean caution is needed. Schroders points out that three-month US Treasury bonds are currently yielding...

The report, which examines the investment strategy and performance of nine major defaults, found the offerings of Royal London, Standard Life, Fidelity, Aviva and Legal & General were generally more diversified than...

Now: Pensions revealed poor performance over three years when compared to the other 24 defaults in the Corporate Adviser Master Trust Defaults report. Its default returned 2.4 per cent annualised in the...

Auto-enrolment defaults lack sophistication in their investment design and this is in large part down to a misguided focus on cost. Employers, consultants and advisers need to switch their focus from cost...

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...