Master Trusts

Welplan Pensions has exiting the master trust market, and will focus instead on its employee benefits business. Welplan says it is seeking a buyer for its pension pensions. It says this decision...

Standard Life is increasing the risk on its Active Plus and Passive Plus range of default funds, with risk profile 3 offering increasing its equity content by 5 per cent per cent....

Eleven master trusts have asked the regulator for more time to submit their authorisation application, with the position of at least 18 more schemes uncertain. An update from the Pensions Regulator indicates...

It was always widely predicted that the workplace pension reforms and accompanying changes to remuneration for advisers would bring a dramatic slowdown in the switching of schemes between providers. The question now...

Chair of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, governor of the Pensions Policy Institute and MD of PTL, one of the most widely used professional independent trustees, Richard Butcher can accurately be described...

These were the conclusions from a panel of experts at a recent Defined Contribution Investment Forum Event, which pointed out many UK savers were “disengaged and disillusioned with pensions, and financial services...

Welcome to www.capa-data.com, the new interactive website designed to help pensions professionals and others better understand the performance, risk and broader strategy of DC pensions. The site allows you to view and compare the...

End-of-year volatility had a marked effect on the UK’s workplace default pension funds in the last quarter of 2018, with the average default delivering a 7.8 per cent annualised return over five...

If there has been one thing as volatile as the comings and goings in Westminster since the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, it has been currency markets, writes Joe McGrath. After...

Professional trustees now have to seek accreditation and meet new regulatory standards, designed to stamp out poor practice in the sector.  Details of these new standards have now been published by the...