Lloyds had awarded Aberdeen Asset Management the mandate to run these assets for its subsidiary Scottish Widows. But the bank served notice last February that it was terminating this agreement early, following...
Fixed income specialists are not predicting a correction in bond markets, despite expectations that the current economic cycle will end soon. This was the result of a major global survey of fixed...
The Department of Work and Pension has approved plans for the Royal Mail to launch the UK’s first collective defined contribution (CDC) pension scheme. This confirmation was given in the DWP’s published...
It was always widely predicted that the workplace pension reforms and accompanying changes to remuneration for advisers would bring a dramatic slowdown in the switching of schemes between providers. The question now...
Chair of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, governor of the Pensions Policy Institute and MD of PTL, one of the most widely used professional independent trustees, Richard Butcher can accurately be described...
Welcome to www.capa-data.com the new interactive website designed to help pensions professionals and others better understand the performance, risk and broader strategy of DC pensions. The site allows you to view and compare...
End-of-year volatility had a marked effect on the UK’s workplace default pension funds in the last quarter of 2018, with the average default delivering a 7.8 per cent annualised return over five...
These were the conclusions from a panel of experts at a recent Defined Contribution Investment Forum Event, which pointed out many UK savers were “disengaged and disillusioned with pensions, and financial services...
Neale made the comments ‘in a personal capacity’ at the UK Finance’s Retail Banking Summit. He called for consumer protection to “increase significantly”, but added that he did not think this statutory ...
Gilbert was previously been head of Aberdeen Asset Management, a role he held for more than 30 years. However despite stepping down from the top role, Gilbert is not leaving the company....
