Pensions

Punter Southall Aspire is to buy Oxford-based independent financial advisory firm Focus Oxford LLP. The deal, which is expected to be completed by May 2018, will be the first in a series...

Robeco has launched a new authorised contractual scheme (ACS), a UK tax transparent fund designed to host institutional investors engaging in asset pooling. The ACS, which has been seeded by the Environment...

Aon has appointed former Aberdeen Standard investment specialist Mike Smaje as a partner in its global investment practice. Smaje, who will be based in Aon’s Leeds and Manchester offices, has worked for...

The Prime Minister has pledge to stop bosses taking excessive remuneration from companies with at-risk pension schemes by introducing tougher new rules this spring. Writing in The Observer, Theresa May said new...

BT has been blocked from reducing the inflation indexation of pension scheme members who will continue to see increases based on the Retail Price Index (RPI), the High Court has decided. BT...

RPMI Railpen’s investment director Ciarán Barr, who shaped much of the cost-cutting strategy of the £28bn Railways Pension Scheme, will leave the organisation in the first half of 2018. Barr, who joined...

Carillion’s dramatic and sudden insolvency is likely to push its 13 defined benefit schemes, and their 28,000 members, into the Pension Protection Fund (PPF). However, as reports emerge of a combined section...

Financial wellness provider Salary Finance is partnering with Yorkshire Building Society to launch a payroll deduction savings solution to help employees keep savings separate from day-to-day salary. Allied Healthcare, one of the...

In the ever-elusive search for diversification that doesn’t sacrifice liquidity, UK defined contribution plans are increasingly seeking out liquid alternative solutions. With investment costs as a key battle ground, the emphasis for...

Acquisitive commercial broker Stackhouse Poland has bought Lancashire-based Caprica Healthcare, the specialist provider of private medical insurance services to commercial and private clients. The acquisition more than doubles the existing health insurance...