Average pension scheme could save £700,000 on active costs

Stephanie Baxter
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A typical defined benefit (DB) pension fund could cut costs by around a third per year by centralising and standardising their investment, administration and trading functions, according to the Asset Management Exchange (AMX).

The platform set up by Willis Towers Watson six months ago to reduce cost and resource duplication for schemes, looked at a hypothetical £250m scheme with an actively-managed portfolio based on 55%...

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