UK

Aon has appointed Nigel Aston to be an associate partner and market development lead of its UK defined contribution solutions team.  Aston joins from State Street Global Advisors where he was a...

The Pension Protection Fund should be turned into a ‘superfund’ to boost investments into the UK economy according to Tony Blair’s Institute for Global Change think tank. Its ‘Future of Britain’ initiative...

PensionBee has launched its new protection insurance offering in partnership with LifeSearch.  Customers of PensionBee will have access to online critical illness insurance, mortgage insurance, and family life insurance comparisons, applications, and...

The Irish market, whilst broadly similar to the UK market in terms of pension provision in some ways, is different in that the use of target date funds is not widespread.  In...

The Transfer Activity Index experienced a significant drop of almost 12 per cent in April, according to the latest data from XPS Pension Group. The annualised rate of transfers out of current...

Nest's assets under management (AUM) have topped £30bn, with 45 per cent of those investments in private assets allocated particularly to the UK. The scheme's investments have grown fivefold since 2019, marking...

SPONSORED CONTENT When Sir Nigel Wilson was appointed group chief executive of Legal & General in 2012, he followed a long tradition of the company’s leaders who brought with them a desire...

SPONSORED CONTENT With households under considerable financial strain from the rising cost of living, many of us have changed the way we manage our finances. Whether it’s where we buy our groceries...

SPONSORED CONTENT We spent much of the 2010s implementing automatic enrolment, adding millions of savers through workplace pensions. It was a huge success. Pension freedoms brought welcome flexibility for those nearing retirement,...

Schroders has appointed two senior LDI Solutions Managers to support the sustained growth of the business.   Owen Davies and Sunil Patel both join from Russell Investments and Willis Towers Watson, respectively. He...