Pensions Institute
Longevity rise slowdown: What do the latest figures mean for schemes?
Will funds benefit from increased mortality rates?
Age Partnership launches data collection service for underwritten buy-ins
Age Partnership has launched a service to gather member information for schemes exploring a medically underwritten bulk annuity deal.
Longevity risk: 'it's the demographics stupid'
The development of a capital market for longevity risk would ease the debt burden on future generations, Natasha Browne hears
Blake warns of dangerous concentration of longevity risk among insurers
The insurance industry faces a "severe" concentration of systematic longevity risk through the market for buy-ins, buyouts and longevity swaps, according to professor David Blake.
Asset management costs: gradually becoming more transparent
PP looks at the latest proposals to actually tell schemes what they pay asset managers
Labour steps up review of DC retirement incomes
The Pensions Institute has published a consultation on retirement incomes from defined contribution (DC) schemes as part of a review launched by Labour.
Are ghosts in the machine increasing the price of de-risking?
Overestimates on populations may have led to schemes overspending on buyouts.
Scheme funding: Wading through valuation methods
How do valuation method affect funding levels?
Sponsors overpaying for buyouts due to ONS assumptions flaw
Scheme sponsors may have overspent on buyout contracts as a result of irregular mortality data, the Pensions Institute (PI) has warned.
Pension fund competition for diversification risks hurting returns
Pension funds vying for asset classes freshly introduced to the market could erode the expected returns, SEI has warned.
Pension fund manager 'herd mentality' risks market stability
The tendency of pension fund managers to "herd like lemmings" is threatening the stability of financial markets, according to the Pensions Institute (PI) at Cass Business School
Pension schemes are paying too much
Trustees need to challenge their advisers over costs, Jack Jones says
Pensions Institute: 'Almost all' active managers fail to beat the market
Almost all active fund managers fail to outperform the market once fees are extracted from returns, according to research from the Pensions Institute (PI).
Pensions Institute warns against leaving savers to go it alone
The decumulation phase of defined contribution (DC) pensions should be institutionalised to prevent savers from splashing their pots, the Pensions Institute (PI) has said.
Concealed costs account for 85% of fund transaction fees - Pensions Institute
Asset managers must reveal the full cost of management to investors, as concealed costs can account for up to 85% of a fund's total transaction fees, the Pensions Institute says.
PBUK: Industry challenges value of charge cap
The industry has questioned whether the charge cap on auto-enrolment (AE) default funds is good for scheme members.
PI: Over half prefer savings shortfall to increased risk
More than half of people (52%) would choose a reduced savings pot over increasing their exposure to risk, according to research from the Pensions Institute (PI).
PI: Charges and regulatory reform at the heart of DC value
Natasha Browne examines the Pensions Institute’s report on member value for money
Giving trust a try
Natasha Browne says charges must be cleaned up to gain public trust
DC market value to expand six-fold to £1.7trn by 2030
The defined contribution (DC) pensions market will rocket to six times its 2012 value of £276bn assets under management (AUM) by 2030, according to the Pensions Institute (PI).
AE leads to increase in DC real estate allocations
The introduction of auto-enrolment (AE) has led to a significant increase in defined contribution (DC) schemes' allocations to real estate, according to a Pensions Institute (PI) report.
Hymans launches fixed-fee medically underwritten buy-in service
Hymans Robertson has launched a fixed-fee service for small to medium-sized schemes looking at medically underwritten buy-ins.
Pensions Institute publishes principles for DC modelling
The Pensions Institute has published a set of 16 principles of good practice for modelling defined contribution (DC) in a bid to improve the way schemes are designed.
The 16 principles for modelling DC schemes
How the Pensions Institute thinks providers could improve DC
