Investment Watch: Matt Morris's verdicts on recent developments

‘Promising lead' or ‘Back to the lab'?

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Professional Adviser's investment detective Matt Morris delivers his verdict on key developments in the investment and pensions arenas from the last month or so

Lost in Translation The government is set to launch new rules in 2018 to protect pension savers using workplace ‘master trusts'. The move towards auto-enrolment has resulted in the creation of around 100 master trusts that are designed to manage centralised funds for several employers at once. The problem is, not all of them are regulated so the Government has announced the Pension Schemes Bill, which sets out new standards around its governance, contingency planning and financial adequacy. The hope is this will help to protect workers' retirement savings with important new controls for m...

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