SPONSORED CONTENT A DB master trust provides a new option for employers and scheme trustees looking to manage legacy pension liabilities while protecting benefits for members. How does a DB master trust...
When limited liability partnership (LLP) status first became available to UK businesses in 2000, it gained immediate popularity amongst financial advisers, consultants, accountants, lawyers and other owner-managed professional services firms. The new...
SPONSORED CONTENT First, let me point out the obvious. We’re a pension provider and so the last thing I’m going to do is downplay the importance of saving for retirement. On the...
The ONS tells us that nearly a third of the UK workforce is over the age of 50, up from 20 per cent just 30 years ago. The workforce is getting older....
The Department of Work and Pensions has launched a consultation on proposals to expand collective defined contribution (CDC) schemes to include multi-employer schemes and decumulation-only versions. Currently the CDC legislation only allows...
Providers will be required to give granular figures of performance net of charges paid by different types of employer customers under value for money (VFM) proposals put forward by the Government today....
The Government is seeking feedback from the pensions industry on two possible solutions to the small pots problems within the auto-enrolment market. Its latest call for evidence is asking whether a pot-follows-member...
Smart Pension has launched three new sustainable lifestyle strategies with different growth fund options. Alongside its default offering — the Smart Sustainable Growth Fund — it is also now offering the Smart...
Thousands of savers approaching retirement in September saw devastating falls in their fund value in the year to state pension age or their stated retirement age, with the average at-retirement default down 9.08...
The Pensions Regulator has called on trustees to strengthen the governance and oversight of DC schemes to ensure savers in lifestyle schemes are in strategies consistent with their investment objectives. In a guidance...
