The Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI), a UN-supported international network of investors, has called a renewed focus on more sustainable investment strategies following Joe Biden’s win in the US presidential election. Congratulating...
Companies with higher ESG ratings have been linked to outperformance during 2020, according to new research from Fidelity International. This is the latest piece of research that indicates that during the global...
Scottish Widows is to divest at least £440m from companies that have failed to meet strict environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. Scottish Widows has warned it could significantly expand the scale...
More than half of UK savers think they are unable to save enough for a comfortable retirement, according to BlackRock’s latest DC Pulse Survey. Alarmingly this figures rises to 100 per cent...
Eight out of 10 savers have not made any changes to their pension, despite the financial problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to recent research. The People’s Pension found that 82...
Willis Towers Watson is calling for trustees to refocus priorities in order unlock “real ESG action” in UK pensions. The consultancy firm says spending an additional eight hours a year focused on...
The UK asset management and pensions sectors are well on the road towards getting greater transparency of investment costs and charges. Understanding the costs incurred through investing is important to deliver value for...
When data goes wrong in pensions, it can go very badly wrong. The case of Now: Pensions is instructive. It had to radically overhaul its administrative systems, ended up removed from The Pensions...
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a largely positive impact on adviser businesses according to new research. AKG’s Future of Advice research paper, found that the coronavirus pandemic has acted as “an accelerant”...
The global nature of the Covid-19 crisis is pushing global underwriting solutions further up the corporate agenda. There are a limited number of networks in the UK that offer global underwriting in the...
