Investment

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme will significantly reduce the levy it charges on the advisory sector, due to the falling number of claims against failed firms. The forecast for next year has...

Hymans Robertson has launched a new guide for DB sponsors, designed to stop them ‘sleep-walking’ into a scheme buy out.  The interactive guide aims to help corporates understand more about the endgame...

Collective DC (CDC) may become default option at retirement according to a new report for Aon, which predicts these schemes will ‘transform’ the retirement landscape. The investment consultant says that CDC decumulation-only...

What does the change of name to People’s Partnership mean for scheme members? At the moment we are focused on pension how we help members of The People’s Pension to and through...

B&CE, the provider of The People’s Pension, is to is changing its name to People’s Partnership, announcing the name change on its 80th anniversary. The not-for-profit organisation, which began life in 1942...

Profits might be rising in the renewable energy sector, but this asset class is also looking more risky for investors, according to new research. EDHECinfra, which provides research on infrastructure investing, has...

Insurers are predicting the Chancellor’s reforms to the Solvency II prudential regulatory regime will release tens of billions of pounds of capital to invest in infrastructure. Today’s Autumn Statement relaxation of reserving...

Punter Southall Governance Services (PSGS) is appointing former Barnett Waddingham principal Claire Barnes as client director. Barnes spent the first 15 years of her career at Barnett Waddingham after joining as a graduate...

Chirantan Barua is to become chief executive officer of Scottish Widows and Lloyds Banking Group’s insurance, pensions and investments business unit., replacing Antonio Lorenzo, who retires in 2023. Barua will join LBG...

European asset managers have a lower carbon footprint than their US counterparts according to new research from MSCI. However the research, which looks at the carbon emissions of the assets under management...