Pensions

Scottish Widows is removing exit fees also together from its workplace and personal pension plans, going beyond the 1 per cent maximum required by the regulator. The move means customers will be...

William Parry is leaving Xerox to take the role of senior consultant in the fiduciary management business of Aon Hewitt’s retirement and investment practice. The appointment is the latest of a number...

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is set to join BlackRock, the world’s largest fund manager, according to media reports. Sky News is reporting that Osborne is set to take a...

Expectations of a slow growth future mean default funds will have to be creative if they are going to deliver says JP Morgan Asset Management client adviser, UK defined contribution Annabel Tonry...

A quarter of employers will be forced to make adjustments to their benefits package by April following chancellor Philip Hammond’s decision to curtail some salary sacrifice benefits, new research has found. In...

The impact of Brexit on institutional investors’ attitude to holding UK assets is broadly neutral, with 63 per cent expecting to maintain their holdings of UK assets in the coming six months,...

Legal & General Investment Management is appointing Anna Troup and Mehdi Guissi to its institutional pensions Solutions Group. Troup joins as head of UK bespoke solutions, working across LGIM’s investment and distribution...

More than 100,000 grandparents and other family members are missing out on valuable state pension credits for looking after their grandchildren while their mother returns to work, a Freedom of Information request...

Child-specific illnesses such as cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy are to be covered in Aviva’s group critical illness offering, a move the insurer is describing as a first for the...

Auto-enrolment staging defaults are accelerating with one in seven businesses applying to Aviva for a workplace pension made their application after their staging date had passed, figures from the provider show. Figures...