The Financial Conduct Authority and the Pensions Regulator have announced a joint regulatory strategy aimed at improving retirement outcomes for consumers. This will include a wide-ranging strategy review next year, which will...
Aegon, Aviva, Royal London and Scottish Widows have all received gold medal ratings for their workplace pensions. Financial research consultants, F&TRC, have compiled their annual ratings of both workplace pension and auto-enrolment...
HM Treasury has confirmed it is looking to tackle anomolies in the auto-enrolment system which has seen up to one million low-earners miss out on tax relief. Its statement, which says it...
Schroders has launched a new Sustainable Multi-Factor Equity Fund, designed to meet growing demand for more ESG-focused investment strategies. This is a global fund, benchmarked against the MSCI All Country World Index....
For Aegon’s recently appointed chief distribution officer Ronnie Taylor, the completion of July’s Part VII transfer – the legal process oftransferring the BlackRock platform to Aegon - is the firing gun for...
In some ways, the defined contribution space has hardly changed in the last two decades. Most of the conversations we have today are the same ones heard 20 years ago - how...
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...
The new fund will make up one of the asset class building blocks in the pension scheme’s default strategy, and has been designed to cater for Nest’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements....
