Investment

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...

New DB regulation, due to come into force next year, could force employers to pay higher sums into  these schemes, potentially driving some out of business altogether, according to analysis from LCP....

SPONSORED CONTENT How will the regulator’s proposed ‘consumer duty’ rules differ from the ‘treating customers fairly’ regime? We’ve yet to see the FCA’s final rules, which are expected to come into force...

Schemes have a lot of work to do to make sure they are ‘at the front of the queue’ for best deals with insurers warns LCP. LCP says schemes with capacity in...

Verlingue, a chartered insurance broker, has received bronze accreditation from independent assessor EcoVadis for its ESG strategy. Verlingue director of operations Andrew Sugden is in charge of the ESG project, while director...

Significant FTSE100 corporations' pension assets are producing seven times more carbon emissions than their respective businesses, according to a new analysis by Richard Curtis' climate finance campaign Make My Money Matter and...

Smaller schemes are paying charges that are more than 20 basis points higher on master trust pension arrangement - but this could change under new consumer duty regulations. This was one of...

The industry faces serious and difficult questions about the design of default glidepaths towards retirement, which have failed to protect savers or shelter them from volatility in current market conditions. Speaking at...

Returns from ‘green’ infrastructure are expected to fall in the near term, and are likely to be below returns available on traditional infrastructure - which may have a far higher carbon footprint....