Emma Simon

1 week ago | corporate-adviser.com | Emma Simon

A new industry group has been formed to raise awareness of the importance of business protection insurance among the advisory community. The group is a collaboration of advisers, insurers, reinsures and other market specialists. Advisers include Lifesearch, Pangea, Wealthmax and Towergate, while there is also involved fromRoyal London, Zurich, L&G, LV=, Scottish widows, Unisure, Swiss Re, andQB partners, CI expert, Ipipeline and Iress.

1 week ago | corporate-adviser.com | Emma Simon

The government has stepped back from proposals to regulate consultants advising employers on pension schemes — stating that it hopes the new the new Value for Money framework will help drive the market away from purely cost-based decisions. Publishing the final version of its Pension Investment Review today, the government set out its plans to overhaul the DC workplace pension sector, with the creation of £25bn megafunds that will drive greater investment into the UK domestic economy.

1 week ago | corporate-adviser.com | Emma Simon

DC schemes will be allowed to make bulk transfers of assets into better-performing ‘mega funds’ under legislation announced today. The government has outlined details of the Pension Investment Review, designed to create scale across the DCpensions industry and boost investment into the UK economy. But the government has allowed some concessions for smaller schemes looking to meet this critical £25bn ‘megafund’ size.

1 week ago | corporate-adviser.com | Emma Simon

Smart Pension has launched a new investment strategy that will see 15 per cent of its main growth fund invested into private markets — significantly more than the allocation required under the Mansion House Accord. These investment will take place over the next 12 to 18 months.

1 week ago | corporate-adviser.com | Emma Simon

Capital flowing into private markets investments across the globe is continuing on a downward trend across many sectors, according to new industry figures. PitchBook’s latest Global Private Market Fundraising report shows that in the in the first quarter of 2025 the total capital raised has was $341.4bn. Overall the capital raised has fallen in each year since a high in 2021, while the number of private market funds has also been on a decline since 2022.