Investment

The Pensions Regulator has made its ambivalence towards smaller single employer  trusts crystal clear. For example, last August it described what it saw as the unacceptable scale of under- performance in its annual...

Now that all pension providers are legally required to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their default fund investment processes will we see less scheme members opting for ethical or...

Up until very recently it is easy to imagine that many people might be wondering why equity markets in Europe and the US had been performing so well. The Chinese economy has...

Finding common ground between providers and intermediaries on UK defined contribution (DC) default fund approaches is a tricky business. In the first camp, there are those who say long investment time horizons dictate...

The Government has published further guidance on how pension schemes should deal with the equalisation of Guaranteed Minimum Pensions (GMP). This follows a high court ruling that schemes must equalise these benefits...

Hymans Robertson has promoted William Chan to the newly created role of head of DC investment. In this new position Chan, who joined the company in 2015, will lead Hymans Robertson on...

One in three single-employer trusts and one in five contract-based schemes expect to move into a master trust within the next five years, according to a survey conducted by Aon. The main...

Three quarters of default funds already have or plan to introduce within 12 months some sort of filtering, screening or tilting to their investment strategy to reflect environmental, social and governance (ESG)...

AllianceBernstein has the largest number of individuals conducting ESG analysis, with 126 research analysts all considering ESG specifically, while BlackRock has the largest AUM of ESG assets, according to in-depth quantitative research...

Scottish Widows has created a new specialist team dedicated to responsible investment to integrate responsible investment activity across its fund range and meet evolving customer values and beliefs. The team is led...