UK

The government has made no secret of its desire to use pensions to boost the economy. The problem, as the government sees it, is that British pension funds are not investing the...

TPT Retirement Solutions has appointed Steve Collins as its new head of superfund. Collins brings more than two decades of experience, having held a variety of roles across actuarial consulting, covenant and...

Inclusive workplace healthcare is no longer a “nice-to-have” but a business imperative according to leading benefits consultants.  Many employers assume broad benefit policies are enough, but women, neurodiverse employees, minority ethnic communities,...

Nine out of 10 pensions savers are unaware that pension will shortly be brought within inheritance tax, according to new research. This survey, by Standard Life, comes just one year out from...

LifeSight is the first master trust provider to confirm it will launch a retirement collective defined contribution (R-CDC) solution as soon as the UK regulatory framework allows. The £30bn DC master trust,...

At a recent Pensions UK conference, a speech by pensions minister Torsten Bell referenced the Ontario Teacher Pension Plan’s investments in venture capital leading to 30.2 per cent returns in 2025, raising...

Inflationary fears due to ongoing tensions in the Middle East have caused gilt yields to spike to levels not seen since the  aftermath of the Liz Truss mini-Budget sell-off in 2022. However...

Legal & General and Hyde Group have formed an investment partnership to build affordable homes across the UK. The partnership will be supported through L&G’s annuity portfolio, which deploys capital into productive...

Depriving small pension providers of their human right to enjoy their business, interference with fiduciary duty and mandation of investments are all significant interventions for Government to make in the UK economy,...

For global investors, portfolios embed two distinct return drivers: the performance of the underlying assets and the translation of those returns back into base currency. While the former is usually deliberate, the...