Investment

The Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund (PCPF), which provides pensions for Westminster’s MPs has just 1.3 per cent of its assets in UK shares.  Reports published in The Times this weekend show the...

In his Budget speech the Chancellor called for DC schemes to disclose UK holdings, but all the main providers already do, covering over 15 million UK pension savers, via Corporate Adviser's Master...

The Taskforce on Social Factors has published a new guided aimed at helping pension schemes and trustees monitor and assess social factors as part of their wider stewardship and ESG investment decisions. ...

Exposure to UK equities ranges from zero, for Aegon Master Trust and TPT Retirement Solutions' master trust, to The Lewis Workplace Master Trust, which had 34 per cent in British shares at...

The planned enhancements to auto-enrolment appear to have been further delayed, with the Chancellor failing to set out a timetable for reform. In the accompanying Budget documents and speech there was no...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt did not make any changes to the Lifetime Isa in today’s Budget speech, despite launching a new British Isa to encourage investment into the UK.  There had been calls...

Forcing pension schemes to disclose their UK holdings could perversely result in less funding for British businesses, according to industry warnings.  AJ Bell has said government proposals to compel UK DC schemes...

Poorly performing pension funds will be closed to new business and providers will be required to show how much they invest in UK businesses under reforms unveiled by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt today....

DC trustees must hold private market managers to account over the lack of progress on climate data reporting, according to pension consultants Hymans Robertson.  It says that the availability of climate data...

Four out of 10 consumer struggle to interact with their pension provider, potentially putting retirement savings at risk. A total of 42 per cent of consumer say they do not find it...