Number one for new business is a daunting target in the highly competitive world of workplace pensions. Four years in to his tenure as Scottish Widows chief executive Antonio Lorenzo believes he will...
The Pensions Regulator declined to comment on whether discussions were taking place about the possibility of firms taking a pension holiday to help ease financial burdens during the coronavirus pandemic. However TPR...
Aon has warned trustees that they need to get to grips with virtual meetings to ensure business continuity for pension schemes during this period of upheaval. With coronavirus causing serious health problems...
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)...
