WTW to acquire Cushon
WTW has confirmed it will acquire Cushon from NatWest Group for an undisclosed sum. Cushon will run as a separate master trust from WTW’s LifeSight master trust, with the former focused on...
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Video: UK plc’s reward, retention and productivity challenge, and how PMI can help
Corporate Adviser editor John Greenwood is joined by Vitality’s Gary Impett, to discuss how employers can use their private medical insurance schemes to support reward, retention and productivity Key issues discussed:...
Smart Pension joins body to invest in renewable blockchain ‘tokens’
Smart Pension has joined forces with investment platform Mobius and technology and renewable specialists to explore how tokenisation could open up access to private market assets. Octopus Energy Generation and Ctrl Alt,...
Smart Pension completes Options transfer
Smart Pension has completed the £650m transfer of assets from Options Workplace Pension Trust, bringing its total AUM to just over £9.3bn. This is one of the largest master trust to master...
TPR to investigate barriers that slow pension investment in private markets
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has launched a fresh drive to understand why pension schemes are are not allocating more money into private markets and UK infrastructure, despite government efforts to encourage long-term...
FCA to relax regulations for firms dealing with professional investors
The FCA will set a clearer demarcation between ‘retail’ and ‘professional’ investors in a bid to drive innovation and boost investment across the UK. This will effectively remove regulations for firms dealing...
Salary sacrifice changes will impact how one in four firms fund benefits: research
More than one in four employers using salary sacrifice currently rely on the associated national insurance savings to fund additional pension contributions or other employee benefits, new research shows. Employee benefits specialists...
Aberdeen to sponsor Stagecoach pension scheme in innovative new deal
Aberdeen Group will replace Stagecoach as the sponsor of its £1.2bn pension scheme, in the first of its kind deal. Under the terms of the deal, a £50m surplus will be shared...
Trump considering Oz-style DC system for US
Donald Trump is looking at introducing an Australian-style DC pensions system into the US, a move that would create a sector with colossal levels of assets under management (AUM). Trump told journalists...
Webinar: US v UK – Who is ahead in implementing private markets and other alternatives in DC schemes?
Private market experts from both sides of the Atlantic will be joining Corporate Adviser and US DC alternatives industry body DCALTA in a special webinar which takes place next Wednesday at 2pm...
