Following the acquisition of BlackRock’s UK defined contribution platform and administration business, Aegon has promoted Kate Smith to the new role of head of master trust. Smith, who joined Aegon in 2006,...
Darracott joins from Legal & General Investment Management where she worked for 12 years, most recently as head of digital investing. She also led LGIM’s investment into Smart three years ago. In...
Aegon, Aviva, Royal London and Scottish Widows have all received gold medal ratings for their workplace pensions. Financial research consultants, F&TRC, have compiled their annual ratings of both workplace pension and auto-enrolment...
The Pensions Regulator has fined four trustees of the Salvus Master Trust for failing to invest £1.4m of member funds. The trustees each received the maximum fine of £5,000. The regulator says...
There has been an significant increase in the number of businesses looking to switch their workplace pension provider over the past year, according to new figures. Aviva says it has seen an...
Schroders has launched a new Sustainable Multi-Factor Equity Fund, designed to meet growing demand for more ESG-focused investment strategies. This is a global fund, benchmarked against the MSCI All Country World Index....
This figures, calculated by Aegon, assume that the employee and employer have made just minimum contributions over this full six-year period. Aegon says this is a “small but important” start to their...
Research from wellbeing provider Neyber found help was needed, as over a third of employees surveyed have less than a month’s salary saved. Within this group – 14 per cent have no savings...
Financial advisers view Brexit and the current political uncertainty as only secondary risks to people’s long-term financial security. Despite the political and news agenda being dominated by Brexit issues, only 6 per...
This Bupa survey, published to mark World Mental Health Day (October 10) shows this as as much of a concern that their physical health or academic performance. Many workplace wellbeing programmes now...
