The FCA has decided to refer the investment consultancy and fiduciary management sector to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and has rejected undertakings in lieu made by Aon, Mercer and Willis...
Robo advice pioneer LV= says DB to DC transfers help drive its pensions assets by 29 per cent in H1 of 2017, up to £654m from £506m in H1 2016. The provider,...
Nest, the state-sponsored workplace pension provider, has outperformed all its major contract-based rivals over the last three years on a risk-adjusted basis, delivering market-leading returns while taking considerably less risk than its...
The financial advice sector is in a period of strong growth, with four out of five advisers seeing their turnover increase in the past 12 months, and the same proportion expecting this...
Millions of pension savers are being exposed to massive differences in risk, equity exposure, asset allocation strategy and performance because of huge variations in the structure of providers’ defaults, a new report...
Just 20 per cent of pension transfer scams have originated through cold calling, data from 550 pension schemes administered by Xafinity suggests. Figures from Xafinity’s pension scam identification unit shows 80 per...
A fifth of UK workers would be more likely to go into work with a mental illness than a physical one and just 20 per cent would take time off for a...
Nest supported 60 shareholder resolutions backing climate change transparency and voted against management 291 times, the provider’s annual investment report shows. In its annual report, which puts environmental and corporate governance issues...
More than two thirds of schemes use a beauty parade to select a fiduciary manager, and trustees’ focus on costs is dwindling, according to an Aon survey published this week. The report...
Hargreaves Lansdown, the investment platform and advisory firm, is joining the ABI with a view to strengthening its representation with government, regulators and other stakeholders. Tom McPhail, Hargreaves Lansdown The firm is...
