Master Trusts

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...

Speaking at the event CMA project director Alison Gold says that the regulator had looked into this issue as part of its wide-ranging investigation into investment consultants and fiduciary management. She says...

The largest master trusts are all expected to gain full authorisation within the next six months, according to The Pensions Regulator. In a keynote speech at the Corporate Adviser summit 2018, TPR...

For Aegon’s recently appointed chief distribution officer Ronnie Taylor, the completion of July’s Part VII transfer – the legal process oftransferring the BlackRock platform to Aegon - is the firing gun for...

Many smaller pension schemes are failing to demonstrate they provide good value for members according to new research from The Pensions Regulator. In its annual DC survey, the watchdog found that nine...

The report says there are issues with the transparency of costs and charges in contract-based and master trust schemes, particularly where there is a commercial link between asset manager and provider. It says...

New ONS figures show that since 2012, and the start of auto-enrolment, an additional 9.8m people have been enrolled into workplace pension schemes. However over this period, contribution levels of have fallen...