Lifesight, Willis Towers Watson’s DC master trust will allocate around half of its equities into environmental, social and governance investment strategies. It is understood that this is the first master trust to...
His comments come as 30 of the UK’s largest companies - including HSBC and John Lewis - pledged to tackle climate change in support of the Government's ‘Green Great Britain Week’. To...
The Financial Conduct Authority and the Pensions Regulator have announced a joint regulatory strategy aimed at improving retirement outcomes for consumers. This will include a wide-ranging strategy review next year, which will...
Unum has launched a new excepted group life policy (EGLP) master trust, designed to simplify the process for employers. This allows Unum to write multiple group life policies under a single master...
The rise of the master trust seems unstoppable. Auto-enrolment has brought 10 million new savers into these giant schemes, while pressure from the Pensions Regulator and employer demand has seen many own-trust...
The debate over whether trust or contract pension arrangements are superior is decades old. Yet with such a high level of regulatory change, product development and scale on the master trust side, the answer to the question...
Whyte will be responsible for growing and developing SEI’s DC proposition which includes its master trust. She will be based in the company’s London office but will oversee business development across Europe...
Following the acquisition of BlackRock’s UK defined contribution platform and administration business, Aegon has promoted Kate Smith to the new role of head of master trust. Smith, who joined Aegon in 2006,...
Darracott joins from Legal & General Investment Management where she worked for 12 years, most recently as head of digital investing. She also led LGIM’s investment into Smart three years ago. In...
Aegon, Aviva, Royal London and Scottish Widows have all received gold medal ratings for their workplace pensions. Financial research consultants, F&TRC, have compiled their annual ratings of both workplace pension and auto-enrolment...
