Pensions

Why is financial wellbeing a priority for UK employers and employees? Financial capability in the UK is sadly at a low level and this is having a significant impact on people’s lives,...

Collective defined contributions schemes could be opened up as an option for master trusts, if the new Pension Schemes Bill becomes law. The Department of Work and Pensions has given further details...

A Pensions Schemes Bill has been included in the Queen’s Speech today, which lays out the legislative plans for the forthcoming parliamentary session.  This bill includes legislation to enable the pensions dashboard...

Enquiries to Aviva from employers and advisers looking to switch pension provider were up 60 per cent during the first half of 2019, compared to the first six months of last year....

After four years out of the employee benefits world, Nick Burns, the man who has headed PIFC, Bluefin and Capita Employee Benefits, is now back at the helm of Gallagher Benefit Services...

The ‘S’ in environmental, social and governance (ESG) is complex to implement in investment strategies, particularly in relation to companies that pay little tax because they tend to be the most profitable,...

Lift-Financial founders Joel Adams and Michael Holden are the backers of Mana, the first Manchester restaurant to been awarded a Michelin Star in more than 40 years. Adams and Holden, who head...

The University of Oxford Pension Scheme is the latest master trust to gain authorisation from The Pensions Regulator.  This now brings the total number of master trusts authorised to 34.  Salvus Master...

The Queen’s Speech should include a “comprehensive” pensions bill, to pave the way for pensions dashboard, collective defined contribution pensions, as well as better treatment of non-taxpayers in auto-enrolment schemes.  Aegon’s pension...

The asset manager AllianceBernstein is collaborating with leading scientists to develop new research on climate risk and investment performance. This research project will be run from Columbia University’s Earth Institute.  Scientific experts...