It is now five years since the introduction of pension freedom rules, but there is still widespread confusion about retirement options, particularly among the 50-plus age group. One in four savers (26...
Finding common ground between providers and intermediaries on UK defined contribution (DC) default fund approaches is a tricky business. In the first camp, there are those who say long investment time horizons dictate...
Hymans Robertson has promoted William Chan to the newly created role of head of DC investment. In this new position Chan, who joined the company in 2015, will lead Hymans Robertson on...
One in three single-employer trusts and one in five contract-based schemes expect to move into a master trust within the next five years, according to a survey conducted by Aon. The main...
Scottish Widows has created a new specialist team dedicated to responsible investment to integrate responsible investment activity across its fund range and meet evolving customer values and beliefs. The team is led...
Defined contribution (DC) assets across the world’s six largest pension markets exceeded defined benefit (DB) assets for the first time in 2019, research from the Thinking Ahead Institute has found. The research...
Investors in workplace pensions have received returns 16.8 per cent higher than investors using financial advisers in the five years to Q3, 2019, new research from Corporate Adviser reveals. Older investors, with...
The Cheviot Trust delivered the highest returns for savers in the pre-retirement phase, for those five years before state pension age, returning 10.6 per cent a year annualised before charges in the...
Now: Pensions, the master trust that has sat at the bottom of the workplace pension default performance tables for several years, delivered the sector’s strongest performance in the year to Q3 2019,...
The Pensions Management Institute has appointed Atlas as its master trust partner. This partnership will give PMI members access to a range of services provided by Atlas through multiple distribution channels. This...
