Master Trusts

TPT Retirement Solutions has appointed Louise Stokes to be its new head of finance.  Stokes is a chartered accountant with more than 10 years experience in accountancy and fund administration. She has...

The controversial issue of whether defined contribution (DC) pensions schemes should embrace the 2 and 20 performance fee structures common in the world of private equity was a key area of debate...

I am a fan of adding private assets to DC default portfolios. My enthusiasm is based upon evidence from other institutional investors that broadening the asset classes in which they invest is...

Now: Pensions will for the first time offer a range of additional investment options alongside its default fund. These will be available to members from summer 2024 and are designed to offer...

Falling levels of home ownership are opening a fault line under the retirement income security of more than a million pensioner households with the proportion in private rented housing set to triple,...

Nest has appointed Rachel Farrell to the newly created role of director of public and private markets. The master trust provider said this will strengthen the team at Nest Invest. Farrell will...

Smart Pension has been appointed to provide workplace pensions for the facility management company ISS UK. This will see £200m of AUM moved to Smart Master Trust, which will now run the...

Foster Denovo is buying Punter Southall Aspire’s employee benefits business and will integrate it into its Secondsight division. The transaction will mean the team doubles in size and increases its national coverage to...

Legal & General has agreed a £4.8bn full buy-in for the Boots Pension Scheme in what is the UK’s biggest ever single transaction by premium size. The deal secures the benefits of...

The government has confirmed that a multiple default consolidator model will be used to bring together small pots into a small number of authorised schemes. The Chancellor used the Autumn statement to...