Investment

Legal & General has extended its lead as the biggest UK DC pensions provider, growing its assets to £98.8bn by the end of June 2020, up 14 per cent year on year,...

The Aviva Master Trust Trustees is adopting the ESG-integrated My Future Focus as the standard default investment strategy for the Aviva Master Trust The scheme’s trustees’ have formulated their own set of...

Phoenix Group is launching a new ESG DC default solution for Standard Life schemes that tilts up green technology solutions by 50 per cent and reduces carbon intensity down by the same...

Phoenix Group has become a signatory to the UN-supported Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI), confirming its commitment to including environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investment decision making and ownership. As at...

Changing the language used to describe pensions could significantly boost employee engagement with retirement savings, according to new research. The survey, by Invesco, Nest Insight and maslansky + partners identified a number...

One in two pension professional are concerned that  trustees’ fiduciary duties are hindering their ability to address climate change effectively. These surprising results were in a poll taken at a resent XPS...

£100bn has been wiped off the value of index linked gilts and other RPI-linked assets by the Chancellor’s decision to dump the retail price index in favour of CPIH, says Hymans Robertson....

Fintech advice firm Wealth Wizards will have its employee-based app featured in a new ITN programme on financial wellbeing.  The programme, hosted by former Watchdog presenter Alice Beer, will look at what...

An at-retirement collective DC structure could deliver sustainable income 57 per cent higher than can be achieved through income drawdown and 49 per cent more than an annuity, according to figures from...

Trustees and IGCs will have an increasingly important role to play in the DC pension sector to ensure good outcomes for members.  This was one of the main conclusions of a Q&A...