The GKN Group Pension Scheme is transferring members’ defined benefit entitlements into cash without them having requesting a transfer. Scheme members with smaller entitlements are being given cash sums for their benefits...
Schemes are adopting a broad spectrum of approaches to derisking. Both extremes of this range have the potential to be extremely detrimental to members says SSGA UK head of strategic DC clients...
To hedge or not to hedge? Predictions of political and economic volatility as the Government triggers Article 50 means currency markets are entering choppy waters. John Greenwood finds pension advisers and providers...
Pension savers should be automatically nudged into low-cost default income drawdown plans at age 55, allowing withdrawals of between 4 and 6 per cent a year, CPS fellow Michael Johnson has proposed....
Expectations of a slow growth future mean default funds will have to be creative if they are going to deliver says JP Morgan Asset Management client adviser, UK defined contribution Annabel Tonry...
Advisers need to sort the wheat from the chaff when comparing default investment propositions says Nest director of business development Paul Budgen Before making a major purchase, whether it’s buying a laptop...
Workplace pension investors who opted out of their default fund have achieved higher returns over the last five years and can be expected to do so over the longer term says Hargreaves...
One in eight employers missed their auto-enrolment staging date in the second quarter of 2016, putting themselves at risk of a fine, according to figures from Aviva. The provider says 12 per...
Defaults with unhedged equity exposure have outshone dynamic asset allocation peers since Brexit. But David Rowley sees little consensus on where defaults go from here A media headline that says ‘Your pension...
A perfect storm for annuities of falling interest rates and soaring demand for gilts could lead to drawdown becoming default retirement option, experts are warning. A combination of market reaction to the...
