Smart Pensions head of operations Michael Watkins has been named as the chair of Pensions Administration Standards Association’s (PASA), newly formed DC Governance Working Group. The independent pensions administration body has today...
Holloway Friendly is closing its Optimal group risk brand to new business with immediate effect, with clients being offered the option to transfer to Canada Life on at least equivalent terms. Optimal...
Fears that pension freedoms may result in retirees running out of cash have been heightened by research showing almost half of drawdown savers are withdrawing more than 10 per cent of their...
ETF fund transaction fees can be five times the quoted Ongoing Charge Figure (OCF), with the average equity fund spending an extra 21 per cent beyond the OCF on transaction costs, according...
Barnett Waddingham is appointing former Mercer principal Andy Parker to a national role in its workplace health and wealth team. Parker joins as a national DC consultant after 10 years at Mercer...
Millions of savers in auto-enrolment default funds are experiencing significantly lower levels of risk-adjusted return because of the wide variance in structure of master trust and life office investment strategies, Corporate Adviser...
Earthmiles, the health and wellbeing app that offers users points for exercise that can be redeemed against healthy rewards, is launching a workplace version to support employers and employees. The app, called...
The Government has called on group income protection (GIP) providers to develop cheaper, simpler products before demanding financial incentives, but insurers say they already meet the criteria it has set out. The...
The Government has published a list of five new tests master trust pension schemes will need to meet in order to continue operating. Publishing new master trust regulations today, the Department for...
Along with global legal practice Eversheds Sutherland, we look at why employers may want to do more than simply meet the legal minimum in terms of their auto-enrolment duties. Our new policy...
