Investment

The coronavirus pandemic is likely to exacerbate the gender savings gap, with a greater proportion of women saying they will decrease pension contributions in the next six months. Recent research by Aegon...

Bulk annuities sales have proved to be resilient despite difficult market conditions, with almost £13bn of business placed in the first half of this year. According to Aon this is the fourth...

Learning from other countries’ pension reforms is difficult to do as the political and economic context from which such systems emerge are often very different. This means that it is not usually...

 As  with  several other regulatory initiatives, the implementation of investment pathways has been delayed due to Covid-19. The reform had been due to come into force in August, which would have meant investors following...

Never, when I used to do face-to-face pitches, would I ever have been interrupted by a rabbit – that’s just been one of the many challenges of the new virtual pitching environment in...

Dalriada Trustees - one of the UK’s largest independent trustee firms - has appointed with Minerva Analystics to asses asset managers’ ESG and stewardship records.  As part of this partnership Minerva will...

Scottish Widows is investing £2bn from its pension portfolios into BlackRock’s new Climate Transition World Equity Fund.  This is the first investment into this fund, which Scottish Widows helped design. The fund takes...

Only a minority of working adults (44 per cent) feel they understand enough about pensions to make decisions about their retirement, according to new data from the Office of National Statistics. Its...

Pension deficits have continued to rise during July, despite the economic lockdown easing, according to the latest data from Mercer. Its Pensions Risk Survey data shows the accounting deficit of the DB...

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a marked effect on the funding of DB schemes, with a wide gap remaining between the best and worst-funded schemes, according to Aon’s latest accounting report. It...