A quarter of schemes not reviewed investment strategy since freedoms

Kristian Brunt-Seymour
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Nearly a quarter of companies have still not reviewed their pension schemes' investment strategy in light of the April freedoms according to Willis Towers Watson's DC master trust, LifeSight.

Its research, Pension Design Survey, surveyed 160 of the UK's largest organisations on how pension schemes were responding to the pension reforms introduced almost a year ago. Of the firms yet t...

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