The financial health of the UK’s defined benefit schemes failed to improve over the last quarter according to Legal & General Investment Management’s defined benefit (DB) health tracker. It points out that...
It has been clear for many years that our domestic pension and long-term institutional assets have not been investing as much as they should and could in more diversified sources of return...
The prime minister and chancellor have challenged UK pension schemes to back Britain’s “entrepreneurial spirit” by increasing investment into new green technology and unlisted research start-ups. In a letter to institutions published...
Hargreaves Lansdown has appointed Helen Morrissey as its new senior pensions and retirement analyst. Morrissey joins from Royal London where she has worked as a pensions specialist for more than four years....
Workplace pensions enjoyed a massive rebound in the year to 31.3.21, with younger savers in the Aegon Master Trust’s Flexipath and the Ensign defaults up 45.3 per cent, while the Corporate Adviser...
The pension dashboard fiasco continues to roll on. The scope seems to be continually cut so something can be delivered in line with the latest “timeline“. Apparently, we might get something up...
More than £10bn is now invested in ESG strategies through Aegon’s workplace default funds, according to the company’s latest figures. Aegon says its TargetPLan LifePath default funds now have 75 per cent...
Almost half of UK pension schemes now employ a professional trustee, with one in three doing so under a professional corporate sole trustee (PCST) arrangement according to new data from LCP. It’s...
Arthur J Gallagher has confirmed that a deal to buy Willis Towers Watson’s retail brokerage operation and reinsurance assets will not go ahead, following the termination of the Aon and WTW merger...
Fidelity International has appointed Jenny Segal as global head of workplace investing distribution. Segal joins from AMG where she was head of European distribution and global head of consultants. Segal is a...
