Fund managers have increased allocation to alternative investments since the Covid pandemic and say the strong performance of these assets during this period has led to a more more positive view of...
The Top 500 asset managers have reached a new US$131 trillion record and the top 20 asset managers in the world now oversee assets worth over US$59 trillion, according to research from...
It has been a remarkable three weeks in the world of politics, economics, sterling and gilt markets and pensions with events from each sphere having a profound effect on all the others....
Hymans Robertson is the latest consultancy firm to criticise draft regulations for defined benefit schemes. It says it is “deeply concerned” about key parts of these proposals, and suggests the Department of...
Despite the Prime Minister's April’s National Insurance (NI) contribution increase of 1.25 per cent, the anticipated rush of businesses implementing a salary sacrifice arrangement as a more efficient way for employees to pay...
Business journalists used to have an award called ‘the golden bollock’. It was presented every year at the TUC conference to the hack who had written the story with the most outlandish clangers...
Members of defined contribution (DC) pension funds in their 50s or 60s, are even more at risk than those in DB schemes: Members of DC schemes, especially if they are in lifestyle...
Ten years on from the launch of auto-enrolment and two decades from the Pensions Commission that shaped it, the world of workplace pensions has been transformed. Reducing means testing, raising the state...
The Bank of England has stepped up its bond-buying activity in a move to shore up the financial system and protect pension funds. The Bank has announced it will widen is bond...
Smart Pension’s default fund is now fully sustainable, according to the master trust provider, incorporating an increased number of investments with a specific focus on ESG issues. Smart says this announcement means...
