Defaults

We have 9m more people saving off the back of inertia, but contribution rates are low and we need to get this generation saving more, and that means engaging people with their...

The number of fund managers pushing clients to embrace environmental, social and governance investing has increased in recent years. Asset managers claim that environmental factors like climate change, social factors such as...

The Work and Pensions Committee has today published a report calling for all pension providers to offer a single default drawdown option and all schemes, including DB, to be required to give...

The checklist of factors a consultant or adviser must weigh up when deciding whether a scheme or provider is delivering value for money is a lengthy one. Is cheapest always best? Are...

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...