The political crisis of the post-Brexit world means pensions professionals’ in-trays are full. Domestic and EU regulation is up in the air, markets are challenging DB schemes and annuity purchasers, and tax...
Interest rates are low. Bond yields, in some economies, are at negative levels. Simon Edelsten, manager of the Artemis Global Select fund, analyses which assets investors should now consider. Click here to...
‘Trivial commutation’ is the UK's most misunderstood pension term, with 97 per cent of pension scheme members not understanding what it means. Second most misunderstood is 'EPA' - effective pension age -...
We may have to wait for reliable ROI figures for employee wellbeing programmes but that does not mean best practice is not evolving quickly. Edmund Tirbutt reports Anyone who doubts that employee...
Defaults with unhedged equity exposure have outshone dynamic asset allocation peers since Brexit. But David Rowley sees little consensus on where defaults go from here A media headline that says ‘Your pension...
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association has launched the Retirement Quality Mark (RQM), a new kitemark fordecumulation products. The PLSA says the RQM will build on existing guidance and act as an...
Zurich’s new FutureYou corporate platform offering misses the point of aggregation, says Ian McKenna, director of F&TRC Zurich is not known as a mass-market player in workplace pensions. Its strategy has been...
California is on the cusp of its own auto-enrolment revolution says GJH Pensions director Gareth Hopkins. And it looks considerably simpler than the UK’s The pensions readiness crisis in the UK may...
Aon and Willis Towers Watson are amongst the group of providers working with the Treasury to launch a prototype pensions dashboard by March 2017. At an event taking place at Aviva’s Digital...
Investment and admin costs should be separated to ensure members are not short-changed through the management of their pot, says David Hutchins, lead portfolio manager, multi-asset solutions EMEA at AllianceBernstein These...
