John Greenwood

 PIB Employee Benefits has created a new executive team that sees Joanne Neary promoted to client services director and Sarah Harris named operations director.The new executive team will report directly to managing director David Skinner.The business is also expanding its senior leadership team positions, with the creation of four new roles – many of which are expected to be filled by internal candidates.

Aegon’s UK workplace platform saw net deposits of £3.7bn in 2024, resulting from the onboarding of 268 new schemes and higher regular contributions across the board.Publishing its second half 2024 results this morning, Aegon says several of the new schemes onboarded were beyond the £100m assets threshold. Aegon UK CEO Mike Holliday-Williams says the workplace pension business had seen a 98.5 per cent scheme retention rate, in part driven by interest in the provider’s investment strategy, including its new private markets.

Reliance on defined contribution (DC) plans for retirement income is growing by the year, but the industry is only just starting to develop clear strategies for how non-advised retirees can draw their pensions. TO DOWNLOAD A FULL COPY OF THE DECUMULATION ROUNDTABLE SUPPLEMENT CLICK HERE But there are several obstacles to overcome and complexities to

The adviser shortlists have been revealed from a record number of entries for the Corporate Adviser Awards 2025, accelerating the countdown to the big night of the year for the workplace benefits sector.The winners in each category will be revealed at the annual awards ceremony, which will take place at the Hilton Bankside, London on Thursday 26th June.

Much of the UK pensions sector has a blind spot with regard to the Shariah status of annuities meaning Muslim retirees are unwittingly buying products that are not suitable for them, a Corporate Adviser report has found.The report into adviser attitudes to Shariah investments concludes that conventional annuities are not Shariah-compliant, yet industry awareness of this is very low, and Muslim retirees may be purchasing these unsuitable products without knowing their status.

Payments of £70 due to a million low earners in net-pay pension schemes have been delayed by a year because of IT and administration delays, Corporate Adviser can reveal.In 2022 the Government said it would legislate to compensate individuals who save in occupational pension schemes under net pay arrangements (NPA) who miss out on a 20 per cent top-up on their pension contributions.The Government estimates 75 per cent of those affected are women.

The Reserved Investor Fund (RIF), a new type of UK-based contractual investment scheme, was launched on 19 March 2025. The RIF was originally proposed by the previous government, in response to industry demand for a closed-ended investment vehicle for institutional investors to hold real estate investments. RIFs are structured as unauthorised co-ownership alternative investment funds

It’s a happy 10th birthday for the Managed Core Retirement Pathway strategy, launched back in 2015 just as George Osborne was launching pension freedoms. For Jo Sharples, partner and chief investment officer DC solutions Aon, it has been a decade of success at the helm of the default. Since Q2 2015 the fund has, for

Private market asset managers with deep links to the UK pensions sector are generating strong returns from European football clubs.

The US is home of the private markets industry, but DC investments are even sparser than in the UK. But the DCALTA says this is set to change.