PLSA

Best Practice | 10 Nov 17

The UK Government is committed to banning pension cold calling and will bring forward draft legislation for scrutiny to ban the practice in early 2018, a member of parliament (MP) has confirmed.

Best Practice | 11 Oct 17

A series of national income targets could be used to help pension savers understand whether they are on track for a comfortable retirement, the Pension and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has proposed.

Best Practice | 25 Sep 17

Advisers need clarity and reassurance on defined benefit transfers, the FCA has been told by the pensions industry in response to its consultation on update existing guidelines around advising on DB transfers.

Best Practice | 28 Jun 17

Plans by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority to crackdown on excessive asset management fund charges and improve competitiveness in the sector has been met with a flurry of contradictory responses from different parts of the financial services industry.

Companies | 16 Jun 17

Baring Asset Management’s heads of EMEA wholesale distribution and global marketing have left the business. BNP Paribas AM has a new Asia Pacific head of institutional sales and currencies portfolio manager. Channel Islands-based PraxisIFM is focusing on client risk with its latest promotion.