Master Trusts

Defined contribution (DC) assets across the world’s six largest pension markets exceeded defined benefit (DB) assets for the first time in 2019, research from the Thinking Ahead Institute has found. The research...

Investors in workplace pensions have received returns 16.8 per cent higher than investors using financial advisers in the five years to Q3, 2019, new research from Corporate Adviser reveals. Older investors, with...

The Cheviot Trust delivered the highest returns for savers in the pre-retirement phase, for those five years before state pension age, returning 10.6 per cent a year annualised before charges in the...

Now: Pensions, the master trust that has sat at the bottom of the workplace pension default performance tables for several years, delivered the sector’s strongest performance in the year to Q3 2019,...

The Pensions Management Institute has appointed Atlas as its master trust partner.  This partnership will give PMI members access to a range of services provided by Atlas through multiple distribution channels. This...

Workplace pension providers will no longer have disclose to members full fees — including transaction costs — for all fund options, after the industry lobbied the regulator for a change in these...

 What is the right level of risk for a workplace default? This depends on a lot of factors including attitude to risk, time horizon, and objectives. Pension investors who are still in...

Nest has reached £10bn assets under management (AUM) invested on behalf of more than 8.6 million members. The scheme has hit the £10bn mark in less than a decade, having been launched...

Christopher Woolard has been named as interim chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, taking over Andrew Bailey’s role when he becomes Governor of the Bank of England. Woolard is currently FCA executive director...

I have recently returned from two fact finding trips, to Australia and the US, meeting plan providers, fund managers, employers, other consultants, plan members and Nobel prize-winning economists. During each trip it...