Master Trusts

Learning from other countries’ pension reforms is difficult to do as the political and economic context from which such systems emerge are often very different. This means that it is not usually...

 As  with  several other regulatory initiatives, the implementation of investment pathways has been delayed due to Covid-19. The reform had been due to come into force in August, which would have meant investors following...

Never, when I used to do face-to-face pitches, would I ever have been interrupted by a rabbit – that’s just been one of the many challenges of the new virtual pitching environment in...

Salvus Master Trust has today announced that it has been selected as the replacement default scheme for the Ascot Lloyd Pension Trust. This master trust which was set up in 2010 exited...

Dalriada Trustees - one of the UK’s largest independent trustee firms - has appointed with Minerva Analystics to asses asset managers’ ESG and stewardship records.  As part of this partnership Minerva will...

XPS Pensions Group has appointed Paul Armitage as the new head for its master trust, The National Pension Trust.  Armitage, who was formerly head of distribution at NPT replaces Dave Hodges who...

Scottish Widows is investing £2bn from its pension portfolios into BlackRock’s new Climate Transition World Equity Fund.  This is the first investment into this fund, which Scottish Widows helped design. The fund takes...

As with several other regulatory initiatives, the implementation of investment pathways has been delayed due to Covid-19. The reform had been due to come into force in August, which would have meant...

The defined contribution pensions market in the UK remains in long-term transition. Factors contributing to this change over the last few years include auto-enrolment, the rapid growth of master trusts as providers...

Nest has adopted a new investment policy with the aim of being ‘net zero’ in terms of carbon emissions by 2050. The UK’s largest master trust provider says this policy should help...