Nest has signaled its intention to add actively-managed commodities to its default funds arguing the asset class is attractively priced in historic terms. Issuing an invitation for tenders issued today, Nest says...
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...
Capita’s Atlas Master Trust has signed up Schroders to manage DC default proposition to its scheme members. Capita Employee Benefits, which launched Atlas in 2015, will continue to administer the scheme, while...
Millions of pension savers are being exposed to massive differences in risk, equity exposure, asset allocation strategy and performance because of huge variations in the structure of providers’ defaults, a new report...
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...
