For Aegon’s recently appointed chief distribution officer Ronnie Taylor, the completion of July’s Part VII transfer – the legal process oftransferring the BlackRock platform to Aegon - is the firing gun for...
The deal will lead to head count cuts of between 2 and 5 per cent, according to media reports. JLT employs more than 4,000 people in the UK, suggesting between 80 and...
Many smaller pension schemes are failing to demonstrate they provide good value for members according to new research from The Pensions Regulator. In its annual DC survey, the watchdog found that nine...
Clara-Pensions - the new DB consolidation firm - has made another senior appointment, appointing Churchill as the chairman of its board. Churchill was the founding chairmen of the Pension Protection Fund and...
Aon has appointed Damon Hopkins as principal DC consultant. He joins from P-Solve, where he was a senior consultant responsible for DC business and proposition development initiatives. He has previously worked for Willis...
The Irish government recently proposed a system whereby a new Central Processing Authority (CPA) would be established, responsible for sourcing, on a competitive basis via an open tender, a maximum of four...
The payroll to pensions software provider says incorrect auto-enrolment data is a problem for schemes of all sizes, but is a particular problem amongst smaller schemes. Pensionsync analysis of over 10,000 schemes...
Figures released this week from The Pensions Regulator show that around 9.9m people have been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension, since the scheme started in 2012. This is an increase of...
These changes, which will be implemented over the next 18 months, follow the integration of BlackRock’s defined contribution business in July. Aegon says the improvements to TargetPlan (the BlackRock proposition) will focus...
The majority of pension trustees will now be compelled to consider environmental, social and governance factors as part of their investment process. These updated regulations were published by the Department of Work...
