The Stonefish research found wide disparities in costs, some funds paying 85 basis points for investment management charges, compared to an average charge of 25.4 bps and some funds paying just 2...
Labour pensions shadow Gregg McClymont MP made the call in response to an NAPF report into the annuity process that suggests employers are often too scared to go beyond the legal minimum...
The UK’s biggest closed book consolidator, with 6m customers and over £68bn assets under management, says it will contact all employers ahead of their staging dates notifying them of its decision not...
The report into the fledgling TDF market says advisers should be aware of managers’ different beliefs and approaches to delivering an optimal investment outcome for a given target date. Two funds...
A report from the PPI reveals that a 45-year-old contracted out person on median earnings will receive combined state and contracted-out pension of £199 a week, while the person who remained contracted...
Mark Wood Responding to reports of DWP plans to push ahead with the creation of a regulatory framework to facilitate collective DC, JLT Employee Benefits CEO Mark Wood argued smaller schemes had...
Steve Cottle, Vielife Insurance intermediaries are split down the middle in their attitudes to provision of health and wellbeing programmes for clients, as well as the value of data gathered as a...
Charlie Crole, Jupiter A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but is it worth three? The answer depends on when we expect to get the birds and our...
Automatic enrolment is bringing significant change to workplace pensions – affecting 1.2 million employers and around 11 million people. Pensions are moving from being an added extra for a relatively small minority,...
The entirely predictable torpedoing of consultancy charging by the DWP leaves the workplace pensions community in urgent need of a vehicle to make advice economically viable. Early experiences of adviser charging...
