Investment

The Department of Work and Pensions has launched a new online service for consumers looking for a financial healthcheck - or 'mid-life MOT’.  But it is also calling for employers to provide...

Workplace pension provider The People’s Pension is to cut its annual management charge for members with larger pension pots. At present the master trust provider applies a flat 0.5 per cent annual...

The Investment Association will identify companies who pay higher pension contributions to directors when compared to the rest of their workforce. The IA says that this is a clear corporate governance issue...

New rules mean trustees need to take a hard look at the way asset managers tackle environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks says LGIM’s Head of DC Client Solutions Simon Chinnery. What...

The armaments sector is more likely to be excluded from default funds operating an ESG approach than the fossil fuel sector, according to an indepth report, ESG in DC Pensions, from Corporate...

New research suggests workplace pensions could boost returns by 10 per cent if they broadened the assets under management to include ‘illiquid alternatives’. This analysis was conducted by JLT Employee Benefits. It recommends...

Pension consultants LCP have appointed Dan Mikulskis as a new partner in the company’s investment team. In this new role Mikulskis will be lead on the development of projects for both DB...

Schroders has appointed a new ESG integration manager,  to help it embed information on environmental, social and governance risk-factors across its investment teams.  Schroders says this new appointment will  help it better...

Pension experts have given a cautious welcome to new government plans to make it a criminal offence to “recklessly” underfund a workplace pension.  The work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd says that...

The new STAR steering group - set up to effect improve the transfers of pensions and investments - has appointed Tom McPhail, the head of policy at Hargreaves Lansdown as its founding...