Master Trusts

More than £35bn has been withdrawn from pensions since freedoms were in 2015 with £2.5bn withdrawn in Q1 2020, up 19 per cent on the same period last year. The £2.5bn represents...

PROVIDER CONTENT Should default funds consider ESG factors or is offering a broad range of self-select funds sufficient? Many ESG factors are relevant to the financial performance of the fund so it...

PROVIDER CONTENT At Scottish Widows, we recognise that environmental, social and governance factors such as climate change are some of the biggest issues facing society today. As part of Lloyds Banking Group,...

Scottish Widows has appointed Stuart Reid to a newly-created role of head of business development, to lead growth in its contract based and master trust schemes. He joins the insurer on 1st...

Tom McPhail, arguably the most high-profile pensions pundit of the last 20 years and one of the sector’s most influential lobbyists, is leaving Hargreaves Lansdown to work for a cycling and e-bike...

There is a huge communications challenge for the pension industry, according to leading pension campaigner, Baroness Ros Altmann, in the wake of one of the most dramatic short-term market corrections in recent...

Michael Clark, director at CBC Pension Services has been named as the UK's first ever fully PMI-accredited professional trustee. Pensions Management Institute CEO Gareth Tancred says the independent accreditation by the PMI, the...

US insurance broker and employee benefits consulting giant NFP has bought Johnson Fleming, the Bromsgrove-based benefits adviser. In the US NFP specialises in corporate benefits, property and casualty, retirement and individual solutions...

In an industry full of buzz words, there is one which crops up more often than most – consolidation. In reality, pensions have been consolidating over the last decade, an evolution largely...

The Covid crash was the test that pension funds didn’t want – at least not yet. It has proved an examination of the pensions sector on so many levels. Most fundamentally it has...