Trustees need to look beyond the immediate compliance challenges of pension reforms to consider wider strategic implications for schemes, according to Hughes Price Walker (HPW), a provider of actuarial, consultancy, investment and...
Gallagher has appointed Michael Robinson to be head of DC investment in its UK benefit & consulting division. Robinson joins from Aegon UK where he was head of investment development and led...
DB schemes could struggle to take advantage of the government's new surplus flexibilities unless trustees address shortcomings in member data, administration and technology, according to Lumera. The insurtech firm said high-quality data...
After a volatile start to the year, all major DC default strategies have delivered positive returns for members in the second quarter of this year, according to Isio research. The pension consultancy’s...
New rules around DB surplus sharing risk undermining the government plans to boost investment into the UK economy, according to the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA). These comments come in its response...
Ahead of the UK government’s September 2 deadline for responses to its consultation on implementing the new defined benefit surplus regime, consultancy firm XPS has called for regulatory safeguards to give trustees...
More than six out of 10 DB schemes who have agreed surplus sharing arrangements will make a distribution solely to the sponsoring employer, according to new research from Aon. Its latest survey...
Regulators and policymakers need to know where AI is being used across the pensions industry as adoption accelerates. The pension provider Penfold says the industry needs improved visibility as to how various...
Government receipts from inheritance tax continue to soar with HMRC collecting an additional £100m from this levy in the first quarter of the financial year. HMRC data show IHT tax receipts in...
The prudential corporate pension solutions division of M&G has entered into a strategic partnership with Kuperstein Kapital and Cedar Insurance. The move is intended to strengthen M&G’s value share bulk purchase annuity...
