Pensions

The Pensions Regulator has warned that many trustees and managers of DC schemes are not paying proper attention to the risks and opportunities of climate change. Its annual survey of DC schemes...

The funding situation of DB pension in the UK continues to improve despite the challenging economic backdrop. The latest Mercer’s Pensions Risk Survey found the accounting deficit of DB schemes in the...

There are mixed views on whether the new investment pathways, which go live today, will change demand for retirement advice, according to a new survey. Aegon found that almost one in two...

Pension schemes are being offered a new fund service which allows trustees to set their own voting preferences. This service, launched by AMX and asset manager DWS, in conjunction with Minerva Analytics...

Smart Pension is the latest provider to sign up to the Make My Money Matter campaign, committing to an investment approach that will achieves net zero emission well ahead of a 2050...

Hymans Robertson has acquired Bath Actuarial Consulting (BAC), in a deal which will see its two founds join Hymans as partners.  BAC was founded in 2021 by Leonard Bowman and Andrew Udale-Smith...

£2.4 billion was withdrawn from pensions flexibly in Q4 of 2020, a 6 per cent increase year-on-year from £2.2 billion withdrawn throughout the same months in 2019. But the average payment in...

The Investment Consultants Sustainability Working Group (ICSWG) has launched a guide to support trustees to assess their investment consultants on their climate competency. The ICSWG is a collaboration between 17 firms formed in...

Millions of higher rate taxpayers in personal pensions and GPPs who currently fail to collect half their tax relief could see their relief automatically under a rule change floated by the Office...

Trustees of larger occupational pensions and authorised schemes could soon be required to calculate and publish their schemes’ carbon footprint under new government proposals. The Department of Work and Pensions is now...