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Closure in the pipeline for £2bn plumbing industry pension scheme
Trustees warn that low expected asset returns mean contributions could nearly double in the years ahead
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UK plumbing industry pension scheme secures £560m buy-in
Deal represents more than 10% of H1 bulk annuity business
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Top 1000 Pension Funds 2024: Pensions back at a sweet spot
Assets for the leading 1000 European pension funds grew by 8.7% year-on-year, reversing last year’s loss of 6.8%. This brings total assets back up to above their previous high water mark of €9.7trn in 2022’s research exercise. This year’s overall net gain in assets of €775bn is the largest since 2021’s increase of €810bn.
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How to choose an adviser
In a marketplace crowded with specialist fund managers, many pension funds rely heavily on a consultant to help them search for what they want and haggle once they have found it. But choosing a consultant in the first place, and then later deciding whether to keep the one they have, ...
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Giving good advice
While trustees at pension funds may not always be experts in every field of investment, it hardly seems to matter when not only consultants, but banks and asset managers are only too willing to advise them. Some argue that the independent advice of consultancy firms is the only advice worth ...
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UK: Thinking beyond Brexit
Pensions regulation has taken a backseat to Brexit but this has not stopped the industry from moving ahead with changes