More than half of small and medium-sized companies are planning to introduce or expand the benefits they offer staff as they focus on recruitment and retention, and increasingly want employee benefits consultants...
Taking on more risk, embracing ESG and illiquids and achieving lower charges through scale could increase retirement pots by 16 per cent over a saver’s lifetime, according to a new report by...
One day you have the security of a steady job and a regular income, the next you have no clients, no routine and no money coming in. This was the choice made by...
Supercentenarians live to 110 or beyond, which coincides with the fact the UK State Pension was first paid 110 years ago. And the world’s first old-age social insurance programme started 130 years...
Scottish Widows is appointing Graeme Bold to the role of director of workplace pensions to lead development of its workplace strategy to market, its GPP and master trust propositions and helping develop its...
Atlas Master Trust is partnering with Hargreaves Lansdown for the delivery of a Workplace Isa, general investment account, Sipp and specialist retirement income solutions. The master trust says the new product suite...
The issue of pension scheme governance has risen up the policy agenda dramatically in recent years driven primarily by the establishment and expansion of auto-enrolment. The extra scrutiny involved has seen both the...
From the start of October 2019, trustees overseeing auto-enrolment defined contribution schemes will be obliged, by law, to give due consideration to a greater number of factors that may impact the performance...
The tapered annual allowance pension rules are a classic example of bad policy design. The rules are far too complicated, impossible to predict properly and have damaging side-effects which undermine the aims...
Climate change and artificial intelligence (AI) are two ‘supertanker trends’ that pose significant risk to asset allocation according to a new report from BNY Mellon Investment Management and CREATE-Research. The report found...
