Pensions

The coronavirus has affected the majority of people’s savings habits - but in starkly different ways according to new research from Aegon. It found that while a third of people (31 per...

The whole country has been staying at home. If we do go out, we’re queuing in supermarket carparks, and attempting to keep at least two metres away from each other. Millions of...

Hear from key speakers from the United Nations PRI, Federated Hermes International, ShareAction, PTL and Barnett Waddingham in this digital forum Sustainable pensions: ESG in the post-Covid economy, at 3pm on Tuesday...

The wealthiest households have reduced their spending by an estimated £23bn during lockdown,  potentially leading to large savings  — according to new economic calculations by the New Policy Institute.  This is income that...

The UK’s largest pension scheme has announced it will be divesting from its tobacco, coal and weapons holdings over the next two years.  USS - the Universities Superannution Schemes - currently has...

Transaction costs make up to 37 per cent of a pension scheme’s costs, with the overall total cost of ownership (TCO) for UK schemes standing at on average 70bps, according to governance...

Following Rishi Sunak’s first budget statement on 11 March 2020, the claim allowance was raised to £6 per week to cover household bills incurred while working remotely – effective from 6 April 2020....

Pension scheme chair’s statements should be required by law to include reference to the quality of their data say independent data consultants, ITM. Responding to the PLSA’s publication of a new template...

Building default investment options for defined contribution (DC) members is really the art of creating a process that will allow asset allocations to change over time, reflecting the changing needs of members...

Reports of the death of pensions tax relief have, like Mark Twain nearly wrote, been much exaggerated. I’m more guilty than most, given I’ve written a lot of those reports, inevitably on...