A new interpretation of fiduciary duty from Eversheds Sutherland argues trustees can make allocations based on investments that will improve the standard of living in retirement of a scheme’s DC members, increasing...
Is the Mansion House drive to “limit defaults” driven by a greater focus on scale to accelerate value? Is it part of the regulatory focus to make the UK DC pension structure...
The People’s Pension has appointed Amundi and Invesco to manage £28bn of the master trusts £32bn of assets. State Street Global Advisors had previously run the entire portfolio, but this US-based asset...
The People’s Pension is calling on regulators to delay the commercial pension dashboard until providers can show simple, directly comparable metrics on investment performance, charges and customers. These comments are in response...
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) will shift approach when it comes to the supervision of DC master trusts, in a bid to identify market and saver risks sooner. This new regulatory approach will...
Aegon’s UK workplace platform saw net deposits of £3.7bn in 2024, resulting from the onboarding of 268 new schemes and higher regular contributions across the board. Publishing its second half 2024 results...
The Chancellor’s sweeping Mansion House reforms for DC pensions are designed to achieve the government’s ambition of a highly consolidated DC pension market which can invest at scale to boost UK economic...
DC providers are directing an “outsized portion” of illiquid asset investments into UK opportunities, according to research from Isio. It has looked at private assets strategies across the defaults of 15 DC...
The UK workplace pensions industry could make savings of up to £1bn on private markets fees according to new research but it warns DC pensions currently do not have the same to...
Nest is buying a 10 per cent stake in the holding company of Australian private markets manager IFM, the fourth largest infrastructure manager in the world. It has not disclosed the fee...
