Scottish Widows

A third round of IGC reports show most have lowered charges, but transaction costs remain hard to pin down. Kim Kaveh looks at the key findings.

This week's top stories included coverage of the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) latest working paper, and six pension firms placed in provisional liquidator after an Insolvency Service investigation.

Scottish Widows has enhanced its workplace savings offering in a bid to appeal to larger schemes with more flexible products following its acquisition of Zurich Corporate Savings.

Three years after Freedom and Choice, many default funds still have not moved away from targeting annuity purchase. This could have unintended investment risks for members, writes Victoria Ticha

Retirement savings of millions of members could be hit with significant losses if pension providers do not step up action on climate risks, according to research.

Aon has appointed Mike Edwards as a partner in its risk settlement team to support the growth of its business offerings in the UK.

Scottish Widows has launched a range four multi-asset funds targeted at those in income drawdown.

Plans to invest more than £3bn in strategic initiatives

This week's top stories included The Pensions Regulator naming schemes and trustees for chair's statements failures, and coverage of the final day of the Box Clever case in the Upper Tribunal.

Scottish Widows and Lloyds Banking Group's (LBG's) wealth businesses have decided to review their asset management arrangements and terminate their partnership arrangements with Standard Life Aberdeen.