Consultants – Page 7
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Coronavirus – what should trustees be thinking about?
Trustees have a duty to pay benefits to members, but the current financial environment is keeping them on their toes.
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NewsAon and WTW join forces in mega merger
The combined company, to be named Aon, will focus on the areas of risk, retirement and health
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NewsChinese insurers pick Redington’s analytics platform
The first two clients to benefit from YuYuan’s products and services
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Former KPMG pensions advisory unit spun out as Isio
CEO sees increased demand for bespoke solutions
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NewsPPF picks framework agreement firms
The companies will be required to perform all services in line with PPF standards of professionalism and PPF’s ICARE values
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NewsSetter: PE secondary market seen increase of 10.8% year on year
The secondary market volume hit $85.4bn in 2019 of completed transactions
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NewsDutch watchdog: Bundled advice and asset management ups costs
Additional costs apply particularly to small and medium-sized pension funds
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NewsMercer rolls out AI tool for DB pension funds
Tool aims to help schemes and sponsors better manage risk through planning member options projects
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Buck to use ClearGlass's cost transparency platform
There is ‘significant value’ to pension schemes in cost transparency data collection
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NewsRedington pursues backing from Phoenix Equity Partners as long-term investor
The firm’s ambitious strategy is ‘to help make 100 million people financially secure’
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NewsUK consultants flag up divergent IAS19 practice over inflation, mortality assumptions
‘The big issue to watch for is whether companies reduce the assumed gap between RPI and CPI for this year end’
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Danish watchdog finds scant competition in DKK2.9trn pensions market
Long-awaited report makes 22 recommendations to bolster competition in pensions market
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NewsHymans: UK DB trustees offer financial advice to retiring members
This trend is likely to grow as a further 11% of trustees have plans in place to offer this service in the next 12 months
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Special ReportConsultants: Gearing up for alternative advice
Investment advisers have laid the groundwork for further growth in the alternative investment market
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Special Report Consultants: A testing time
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is assessing whether a lack of competition among pension consultants is hurting UK pension schemes
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Consultants: Changing roles
IPE asked pension consultants across Europe and beyond how they are responding to changes in the wider pension sector. Here is a selection of their views
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Talking heads
IPE asked pension consultants across Europe for their views on how existing and new regulation is affecting their clients and how they are advising them to react
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Special Report: Consultants under scrutiny
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is carrying out a comprehensive review of the asset management industry, which reaches to the heart of investment consultants’ business models
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Asset allocation in volatile times
Should investors rethink their strategic asset allocation in light of current volatility? Three leading investment consultants tell IPE how they are advising their clients to react to the changing environment
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Room for smaller players in UK's 'oligopolistic' pension consulting market
Martin Steward finds that the age of true dominance of the UK’s ‘big three’ consultants may have passed, creating opportunity for smaller providers
