Pensions

The provider says 1,152 of its scheme members over the age of 55 have accessed pension freedoms since April 6, representing £13.4m in assets. Four out of five of those who have...

Hargreaves calculates that the retiree market consists of 400,000 people, with an average pot of around £30,000, making a total of around £12bn a year maturing from pensions pre-pension freedom reforms. It...

Dean will take on the role in the autumn, when Jones will step down. She was formerly policy and product development director at the Personal Accounts Development Authority, the body that preceded...

Sean McSweeney, Chase de Vere Chase de Vere principal corporate consultant Sean McSweeneyThe majority of trust-based schemes operate on a net pay, which means contributions are deducted from gross earnings but do...

If anyone in the industry was ever in doubt as to who would be held accountable for failure to keep up with the breakneck pace of pensions reform, they surely can be...

Ryan Medlock, Investment Proposition Manager, Royal London Royal London Asset Management’s (RLAM) new head of multi-asset is officially up and running. I want to look at what expertise Trevor brings to the...

Speaking at an event in London yesterday LCP partner Laura Myers told delegates that sourcing detailed information on under the bonnet transaction and other costs would prove problematic, because many fund managers...

The Transparency Task Force, set up by Andy Agathangelou, intends to focus on a broad spectrum of issues ranging from transaction costs to executive pay. At the organisation’s third meeting yesterday, Agathangelou...

With so much change going on within our industry, it is easy to lose track of the extent of transformation in wider society – and nowhere is that more evident than in...

One of the main contentious issues since the implementation of the pension reforms in April still seems to be that of DB transfers – there has been a lot written by advisers,...