Master Trusts

Retirement fintech provider Smart is launches its pensions business in the US today.  Smart already offers a master trust in the UK, which now runs over 70,000 retirement plans on it. The...

Collective defined contribution (CDC) schemes will deliver retirement income on average 70 per cent higher than annuities bought through traditional DC saving, and 40 per cent higher than typical DB structures, according...

Many smaller single trust pensions could face problems switching to a master trust structure in the second half of this year, due to the volume of transfers being carried out. Investment consultants...

The government is considering allowing trustees to ‘smooth’ performance charges over a longer time frame to help DC schemes invest in more illiquid assets, such as infrastructure.  Speaking at Corporate Adviser’s virtual...

There is a growing expectation among pension experts that the government will introduce legislation to ensure larger scheme invest a proportion of assets in UK infrastructure. Such a move would be welcomed...

The Pension Policy Institute research paper on the sustainability of master trusts, made me ask two questions which I do not see addressed in the report. What about the customer? And why...

We’ve often been led to believe that pension scheme members are only interested in the return on their investment, not about how their money is invested. On the contrary, recent survey data...

SPONSORED CONTENT What impact will the Covid-19 epidemic have on growth in the master trust sector? Master trusts were already growing fast. We expect the financial pressure on UK PLC caused by...

‘Nudge’ tactics could boost the pensions of younger savers by up to £142,000, according to new research.  Scottish Widows and the Behavioural Insights Team, a leading behavioural science organisation, researched the key...

I’m sorry to announce that I’ve been made unemployed. Not from my day job, thank Christ, at least not yet, but from my role as a trustee on the Telegraph’s staff pension...