Defaults

Standard Life is increasing the risk on its Active Plus and Passive Plus range of default funds, with risk profile 3 offering increasing its equity content by 5 per cent per cent....

Eleven master trusts have asked the regulator for more time to submit their authorisation application, with the position of at least 18 more schemes uncertain. An update from the Pensions Regulator indicates...

It was always widely predicted that the workplace pension reforms and accompanying changes to remuneration for advisers would bring a dramatic slowdown in the switching of schemes between providers. The question now...

Chair of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, governor of the Pensions Policy Institute and MD of PTL, one of the most widely used professional independent trustees, Richard Butcher can accurately be described...

Welcome to www.capa-data.com, the new interactive website designed to help pensions professionals and others better understand the performance, risk and broader strategy of DC pensions. The site allows you to view and compare the...

End-of-year volatility had a marked effect on the UK’s workplace default pension funds in the last quarter of 2018, with the average default delivering a 7.8 per cent annualised return over five...

The FCA has published a consultation on proposed new rules surrounding disclosure of costs of workplace pension schemes and has moved to address the challenge of negative transaction costs caused by anti-dilution...

If there has been one thing as volatile as the comings and goings in Westminster since the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, it has been currency markets, writes Joe McGrath. After...

HSBC is believed to be on the verge of re-entering the workplace pensions market with the launch of a master trust proposition. The global bank is understood to be recruiting trustees for...

Nest has unintentionally been overstating its annualised investment performance by 0.3 per cent, presenting returns as net when they should have been presented as gross. The error, which the provider has recently...