DC

Barnett Waddingham is appointing former Mercer principal Andy Parker to a national role in its workplace health and wealth team. Parker joins as a national DC consultant after 10 years at Mercer...

Millions of savers in auto-enrolment default funds are experiencing significantly lower levels of risk-adjusted return because of the wide variance in structure of master trust and life office investment strategies, Corporate Adviser...

The Work and Pensions select committee is launching a new inquiry into defined ambition pension schemes, which were legislated for but not fully implemented in 2015. The inquiry will consider whether collective...

DC pension providers should be required to offer savers the option to invest in a government-backed investment vehicle, akin to the French ‘Solidarity Investment Fund, and will get tax relief beyond their...

SEI is appointed former Vanguard defined contribution head Steve Charlton as DC managing director (EMEA & Asia). Charlton leaves his former role at Vanguard where he was European DC proposition manager, and...

Pooling DC assets, improving scheme governance, greater use of fiduciary management and increasing exposure to alternatives could boost pension pots by up to 62 per cent, a report by the Pension Policy...

Punter Southall Aspire is bringing in former Mercer DC consultant Sarah Culver to the role of associate director in the firm’s defined contribution business. Culver was most recently at Mercer, and was...

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has launched a probe into whether trustees of small and micro schemes are paying enough attention to the costs and charges paid by members. TPR has launched the...

The first automated transfers between occupational DC schemes through Origo's new fasttrack system has taken place, moving 305 members between Standard Life and Scottish Widows in around five days. Origo says the...

Workplace DC pension schemes and FCA-regulated entities they contract with will be required to give detailed information on transaction costs from the beginning of next year, under new rules published today. An...