Until the stress in the banking sector this spring, most analysts had missed how abrupt the coming downturn is likely to be. It will have three inter-related dimensions: first, an unexpectedly abrupt...
Pension companies are calling for the government to urgently publish a ‘sensible and workable’ roadmap to implement the bumper package of pension reforms issued in the wake of the Chancellor’s Mansion House...
SPONSORED CONTENT Longer living with a focus on purpose The landscape of pension saving is changing. There’s a renewed focus on living a more meaningful life as we get older – building...
Investors can now invest more easily in productive finance assets since the introduction of the innovative Long-Term Asset Funds (LTAFs). These are regulated open-ended investment vehicles designed to enable investors such as...
The cost of living crisis does not seem to have had a negative impact on Group Income Protection (GIP) sales. And that includes SME business, with 90.4% of in-force policies being...
Aon has appointed Maria Johannessen to be its new UK head of investment. She replaces Tim Giles who has left the company after 25 years. Johannessen has been with Aon for a...
New government-mandated reports are failing to provide “meaningful comparisons” when it comes to understanding how pension schemes are reducing carbon emissions and addressing climate change. Pension schemes with assets of over £5bn...
In recent decades, individual investors have had a reasonable choice of options certainly in terms of mutual funds and retail pensions. One oft-cited milestone in the UK was the launch of the Friends...
One in four (26 per cent) institutional investors are looking to dramatically increase allocation to illiquid assets in the next three years while, while a further 59 per cent expect allocations to...
Half of us (50%) feel overwhelmed by the amount of information on pensions, and 4 in 10 don’t know what to do with it all, according to Standard Life’s Retirement Voice...
