Pensions

The insurer says the move has been prompted by requests from advisers concerned at the potential uninsured risks their clients were facing. Actively at work conditions are used widely by insurers to...

FE will provide Mercer’s research analysis of investment strategies to allow financial intermediaries to select and analyse funds, assess their clients’ investment fund and portfolio risk, and conduct analysis of fund sectors....

The TUC has attacked the first category of DA, a DB-lite approach that would allow greater flexibility around salary-related benefits such as removing mandatory inflation indexation. Other stakeholders have said any relaxation...

Speaking at the LCP DC pensions conference - Deliovering Value to DC Members, Webb said too much transparency around charges would present members with a ‘morass of useless information’ but sidestepped an...

The Enhanced-Diversification Growth Fund (EDGF), which will launch in Q1 of 2014 and is available as a component of a scheme or as a standalone default, aims to generate equity-like returns over...

The Government’s document ‘Better Workplace Pensions: A Consultation on Charging - Impact Assessment Report’, proposes three options, with the lead option believed to be a 0.75 per cent charge cap. LEBC says...

Nest has published its investment fund procurement guidelines, setting out the core areas covered when grilling fund managers on their offering, including security lending income and costs, FX costs, pricing basis and...

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The NAPF also says the OFT’s suggestion that governance committees should be placed at provider level could lead to conflicts of interest, in a wide-ranging critique that welcomed its recommendations but argues...

Yesterday’s House of Commons rejection of pension shadow Gregg McClymont’s amendment calling for an in depth review of fund management charges within auto-enrolment pensions also leaves Labour challenging the effectiveness of the...