For a long time, the workplace pensions market has tended to place providers into neat categories. There were the traditional insurers, the consultant adviser-led master trusts, the AE providers, and the challenger...
Providers must now focus on operational readiness, data quality and service resilience ahead of the pensions dashboard rollout, according to insurtech company Lumera. The MoneyHelper Pensions Dashboard and wider private provider ecosystem...
Specialist pension insurer Rothesay has launched a new bespoke insurance solutions for DB schemes with assets of between £10m and £100m. The launch comes as demand for de-risking solutions from smaller schemes...
Around half of UK workers would increase their workplace pension contributions if their employer's contributions increased. This is according to Scottish Widows’ latest retirement report, which found that if minimum contribution rates...
A third of employers signpost employees to health and wellbeing support only when requested. According to Everywhen, this is often not the best approach to engaging employees. Its research found that 13%...
AE contributions could be entirely absorbed by rental costs in later life, according to new research, which calls for new ways for pensions to help first-time buyers. Hymans Robertson’s report, Tapping the...
More than half the UK’s largest DC default funds now have allocations to private markets, but average allocations are still below 5 per cent. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THE...
Private markets are playing an increasingly important role within defined contribution pension schemes, offering access to growing businesses that may provide attractive long-term investment opportunities while supporting the wider UK economy. In...
Climate change is rapidly becoming the 'defining' risk factor when looking at longer-term investment strategies, funding positions and retirement outcomes according to a new report from the Society of Pension Professionals. This...
Marsh has appointed Daniel Godfrey to the board of trustees and investment committee of Now: Pensions. Godfrey will support the board in providing independent governance and ensuring the master trust continues to...
