Broadstone has partnered with climate specialist Ortec Finance to add additional modelling options to its suite of ESG advisory capabilities. Ortec offers climate modelling, developed using its own framework, allowing assets owners...
A combined approach of phased annuities and drawdown can achieve a higher total income in retirement and give retirees both security and flexibility, according to Standard Life. According to analysis by Standard...
Schroders has committed to running on its defined benefit (DB) pension and using up to 10 per cent of its DB pension surplus yearly to support DC commitments, ensuring DB stability through...
Unum UK's health and wellbeing app, Help@hand, has seen strong demand for nutrition support, especially from women. Help@hand’s nutrition service has delivered 6,225 consultations of which 70 per cent were booked by women...
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has cut its 2025/26 levy estimate from £100m to £45m as the government moves toward a rule change that could reduce it to zero. The industry has...
Towers Watson has appointed Ashu Bhargava as a senior director in its retirement business. Bhargava joins from Clara Pensions, where he worked as chief origination officer for almost seven years. He has...
US tech stocks lost over $1 trillion (£802bn) this week following the launch of China’s low-cost AI chatbot, DeepSeek. Nvidia, a key AI chip supplier, fell 17 per cent ($589 billion) on...
LGIM’s head of DC, Rita Butler-Jones, has announced that she is stepping down from her role following nine years at the firm. Before joining LGIM, she was the director of business development...
Pension tracking tools will still exist sitting side by side with the dashboard, with companies offering these services partnering with firms that are looking to offer commercial dashboard solutions. Raindrop, which was...
HM Treasury has confirmed the Government's plans to relax rules around DB surplus access. The rule changes will allow surplus funds, currently stuck in pension schemes, be invested in the broader economy which...
