Master Trusts

Why is there so much focus on ESG at the moment? ESG has definitely passed a tipping point over the last 12 months, with everyone talking about it now and lots of...

The Pensions Climate Risk Industry Group (PCRIG) has launched a consultation on the new guidance it is publishing for  trustees. This guide is designed to help trustees meet existing legal obligations, when it...

The industry has welcomed the chancellor’s announcement that there will be a 'call for evidence' into pensions tax relief administration, which will cover the ‘net pay anomaly’. However, some providers have called...

Smart Pension has acquired Welplan Pensions Master Trust. Welplan currently provides pensions for around 1,800 employers and has 55,000 individual members in its master trusts, with aggregate funds of around £200m. However last...

Corporate Adviser editor John Greenwood was grilled by a panel of MPs over concerns pension freedoms could lead to massive leakage of tax as individuals flush salary through pensions, avoiding huge levels...

Guy Opperman MP, the minister for pensions and financial inclusion, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at the Corporate Adviser Master Trust & GPP Conference in London later this month. Opperman...

At the end of last year, ShareAction published a review of the 16 largest master trusts by assets under management (AUM). The review set out to explore how environmental, social, governance (ESG)...

Leading auto-enrolment providers are calling for urgent reform of the mechanism for funding regulation of occupational pensions. The Department of Work and Pensions has just announced a 10 per cent increase to...

Janus Henderson Investors has appointed David Whitehair as its new director of institutional business, defined contribution, with a view to developing the company’s DC proposition. In this role Whitehair will provide strategic...

Defined benefit and master trust provider TPT has made two senior appointments to its leadership team as it looks to grow its DC business. Philip Smith has joined the company as the...