Master Trusts

The regulator’s drive to consolidate the DC sector is making progress. Whether that progress is fast enough for the pensions minister will depend on the decisions made by employers, trustees and pension...

SPONSORED CONTENT Our four-step guide to new pension consolidation rules From 31 December 2021, new regulations come into force which require DC schemes to carry out extended value-for money assessments and report back on whether consolidation...

Anders Lundström, the chief executive of MinPension.se — the Swedish pensions dashboard — has first hand experience of the challenges ahead for the UK, as it develops its own dashboard initiative.  Although...

Standard Life has now switched 87,000 members savings through its master trust default, into a new sustainable default option. This is the first stage of its process to transfer all its existing...

Royal London’s Jamie Jenkins and Smart Pension’s Darren Philp are among six new members appointed to the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association's (PLSA) policy board. Formed in 2018 this policy board guides...

The People’s Pension has appointed Mark Condron to be the new chair of its trustee board. Condron, a fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and an accredited professional trustee, has...

The investing approach of UK defined contribution (DC) schemes needs to be reviewed and refined due to changing member needs and market conditions, according to Aon. According to Aon’s 2022 UK DC...

The average growth phase default fund saw a 16.58 per cent pre-charge return in 2021, as markets bounced back from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to data from the Corporate Adviser Master Trust...

What are the new VFM regulations, and how will they impact trustees? There has been a lot of talk about ‘value for money’ regulations, but we prefer to think about ‘value for...

Aegon is investing £3bn of its workplace default fund into  a new range of BlackRock’s ESG index funds —  effectively doubling exposure to sustainable investments for growth stage investors. Growth stage investors...