While the majority (92%) of pension funds in the UK plan to increase their allocations to renewables, the economic impacts of the coronavirus will see larger climate-positive moves such a fossil fuel divestment significant delayed, Octopus Renewables...

The majority of employers currently support the simplification of the pension tax regime, with evidence mounting of its adverse impacts, the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) finds.

GLIL Infrastructure has agreed to acquire a 30% equity stake Agility Trains East (ATE) for a rolling stock fleet of 65 new UK intercity trains from Tokyo-headquartered Hitachi Rail.

This week’s top stories included the rejection of an automatic guidance amendment in the Pension Schemes Bill, while The Pensions Regulator posted a sharp increase in the use of its powers.

Opportunities for defined benefit (DB) schemes to pursue investment approaches that help repair the UK’s economy cannot stand in the way of improving member outcomes, Aegon says.

England and Wales have seen a fourth successive week of increasing excess death figures as the countries battle through the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

More than half of BlackRock’s flagship UK defined contribution (DC) default fund’s assets will be invested in ESG strategies by June 2021.

MPs considering the Pension Schemes Bill in its final stage must push back on changes which could damage private pension viability, according to former pensions minister Ros Altmann.

“Information asymmetry” is holding back workplace pensions despite a clear wealth of provider offerings to try and plug the problem, Benefits Guru says.

Legislation formalising trustees’ ESG duties could be overly prescriptive and lay down too much pressure on schemes, the industry has told PP.