Broadstone has appointed Marc Devereux to be its new director of investment consulting. Broadstone says the appointment will help the employee benefits and pension consulting firm further develop its proposition in this...
Pensions red tape risks trapping tens of thousands of pension savers in low returning funds, according to consultants LCP. The problem concerns savers in workplace pensions who have actively chosen to invest...
The coronavirus pandemic is likely to exacerbate the gender savings gap, with a greater proportion of women saying they will decrease pension contributions in the next six months. Recent research by Aegon...
Bulk annuities sales have proved to be resilient despite difficult market conditions, with almost £13bn of business placed in the first half of this year. According to Aon this is the fourth...
Nest is appointing Gavin Perera-Betts to the role of managing director of its new Nest Experience business unit which is being created to manage evolving technology and customer expectations in the coming...
Aberdeen Standard Investments chair Martin Gilbert and Chris Hitchen, the former CEO of Railpen, are two of a string of high-profile figures appointed to the asset and liability committee of The Pension SuperFund....
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...
I’ve been waiting for a while for anyone to come up with a good argument as to why introducers – particularly those that intervene on DB pension transfers – should not be banned....
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...
