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...
The Fit for Work service can work as a standalone occupational health assessment service for firms currently without provision or help existing employer services by freeing them up to focus on...
Scottish Widows is bulk switching its workplace pension customers into a pension freedoms-friendly default fund, away from lifestyle defaults targeting annuity purchase. The provider will soon write to advisers of schemes with...
Default funds hold the assets of millions of Britons, many of whom have never even signed a pension contract. But where, asks Michelle McGagh, are the stats that show how well these...
