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ESG and financial returns: Schemes can have their cake and eat it too

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Data crunch: Schemes are increasing their investments in sustainable thematic strategies, which allows trustees to keep their fiduciary duty of targeting returns while ‘doing good’.

DC charges: Are fiduciaries too fixated on cost?

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Data crunch: Scheme sponsors are thinking of ‘value’ as more than a low-cost option for savers and are taking a more balanced approach when selecting providers, explains Broadridge’s Hal La Thangue.

Financial wellness: DC sponsors want more from their providers

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Data crunch: Sponsors and fiduciaries of UK defined contribution schemes want their providers to offer more than a core pension product.

Ageing LGPS hungry for income

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Data Crunch: Hal La Thangue explains how LGPS funds are dealing with the challenges posed by changing membership demographics.

Raging torrent of DB equity outflows decelerates in 2020

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Data crunch: Equity outflows from UK defined benefit schemes have gradually softened this year, which could be a sign that trustees are seeing greater value in equity investing longer term, writes Broadridge’s Hal La Thangue.

Improved governance is driving consolidation in DC

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Data crunch: The prominence of better governance as a driver for consolidation in defined contribution provides a lesson for those trying to encourage mergers elsewhere in pensions, writes Broadridge’s Hal La Thangue.

Buy-and-maintain credit poised to take centre stage

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Data crunch: As the UK’s private defined benefit schemes mature and turn increasingly cash flow negative, their focus is shifting beyond funding ratio stability to adopting income-generating investments that help meet pension payments.

Has the DGF had its day?

Broadridge’s Hal La Thangue asks whether the ability of low-correlation diversified growth funds to shine through crises can save them from a tarnished reputation.

Practising what you preach – ESG in DC

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Data crunch: Broadridge’s Hal La Thangue examines the growing prominence of ESG in defined contribution, and reveals a concurrent increase in the wider principle of ‘doing good’ in pensions.

Drawdown is climbing the DC agenda — but there’s no easy fix

Data crunch: Broadridge’s Hal La Thangue on that as-yet unsolved problem of decumulation products suitable for the coming generations of retirees