Investment

The regulator’s drive to consolidate the DC sector is making progress. Whether that progress is fast enough for the pensions minister will depend on the decisions made by employers, trustees and pension...

Trustees and pension scheme administrators should start preparing now for new regulations designed to reduce pension fraud. New measures designed to prevent pension fraud will come into effect in June 2022. On...

SPONSORED CONTENT Our four-step guide to new pension consolidation rules From 31 December 2021, new regulations come into force which require DC schemes to carry out extended value-for money assessments and report back on whether consolidation...

Standard Life has now switched 87,000 members savings through its master trust default, into a new sustainable default option. This is the first stage of its process to transfer all its existing...

By 2026 half of all bonds issued in Europe will be green, social or sustainable bonds according to new market data. PwC Luxembourg’s new report estimates that  there will be  between €1.4trillion...

While Sipps allow pension investors with a keen interest in the stock market to make their own investment decisions, they have also permitted significant abuse by some corrupt advisers and unscrupulous Sipp...

The investing approach of UK defined contribution (DC) schemes needs to be reviewed and refined due to changing member needs and market conditions, according to Aon. According to Aon’s 2022 UK DC...

The average growth phase default fund saw a 16.58 per cent pre-charge return in 2021, as markets bounced back from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to data from the Corporate Adviser Master Trust...

 A report published in October last year exposed a worrying link between pension schemes and climate change.The research, conducted by Make My Money Matter, an organisation which describes itself as a ‘people-powered...

Aegon is investing £3bn of its workplace default fund into  a new range of BlackRock’s ESG index funds —  effectively doubling exposure to sustainable investments for growth stage investors. Growth stage investors...