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Defined benefit funding levels haven’t looked so healthy for years, buoyed by the recent sharp rise in interest rates. While this presents an opportunity to progress the journey towards a “low risk”...

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has launched the L&G Net Zero Global Corporate Bond Fund, targeting institutional investors and wealth managers across the UK and Europe. With a goal of reaching...

Canada Life Asset Management (CLAM) has joined 263 other investors from close to 30 countries in a new initiative to call on businesses to disclose their environmental effects. The 2022 Non-Disclosure Campaign...

Aon's UK DC Pension Tracker increased from 56.9 to 61.3 during the first quarter of 2022, from January to March. The rise in the DC tracker indicates that retiree living standards for...

AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has appointed Laurent Caillot as global chief operating officer effective 1 September 2022. He will replace Godefroy de Colombe, who will pursue a career in a new...

It is extraordinarily rare that you get government intervention in financial services that is widely heralded as a good thing. Help to Buy: great for developers, expensive for first time buyers. Pension...

Origo will be launching the Origo Dashboard Connector, a tool allowing pensions providers to connect to the pensions dashboard which will go live in September 2022. The Connector gives pensions providers access...

The number of people paying higher rate income tax has increased by nearly two million since the last election, according to new data published by HMRC. The number of higher rate taxpayers...

Many smaller defined contribution (DC) pension schemes are falling behind in meeting new legal criteria, so trustees should make sure they are prepared, a new survey suggests.  The Pension Regulator's (TPR) annual...

Lloyds Banking Group has appointed Scott Wheway as a non-executive director of the group and as chair of Scottish Widows Group. Subject to regulatory approval, Wheway will start serving as a director...