Trustee stories

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...

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...

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...

We’ve all seen the news by now: the Pension Schemes Bill has once again changed form, and perhaps for the better. Yesterday’s reading at Parliament sent a clear signal: by amending fiduciary...

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...

The UK’s four million Muslims are poorly served by the pensions industry, and we need innovation from regulators, government, providers and industry professionals if we are to build a system that is...

Reckless conservatism is destructive to DC pension outcomes, so prioritise equities within default funds to drive better returns. That is the headline message from Stéphanie Payet, private pensions analyst at the OECD....

The Government will look to introduce new legalisation, to put a wider definition of trustees' fiduciary duty  onto a statutory footing. This announcement was made by the pensions minister Torsten Bell in...

XPS Group has expanded its risk settlement team with five new appointments. The consultancy says this comes after a rise in buy-in transactions over the past year, and reflects the firm’s investment...

Hargreaves Lansdown has appointed Doug Abbott to be its chief product officer. In this role Abbott will be responsible for HL’s £11bn fund management fund range, which includes its workplace offering —...