Tagged: smart pension

October 31, 2023 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, one of the UK’s workplace pension providers, and Mercer, the global consulting and investments leader and a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE:MMC),  launch a new pension solution to meet the accelerating demand for modern retirement technology amongst the UK’s 5.5 million small and… Read More

October 14, 2023 @ 5:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, which claims to be one of the UK’s leading workplace pension schemes, announces that it aims to reduce the emissions of its default growth fund by 75% by 2030. This new target swiftly follows the announcement that Smart Pension “had achieved a 50%… Read More

September 24, 2023 @ 10:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, one of the UK’s workplace pension providers, announces its investment in the AMX-DWS Global Low Carbon Stewardship Fund. The fund is a new low-carbon global equity index strategy that “offers innovative stewardship voting capabilities, being one of the first pooled funds to offer… Read More

September 3, 2023 @ 8:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, which claims to be one of the UK’s leading workplace pension schemes, announces it is committing “to removing commodity-driven deforestation from its main investment arrangements.” Smart Pension is reportedly one of the first pension providers “to make such a commitment and one of… Read More

August 14, 2023 @ 12:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, which claims to be one of the UK’s leading workplace pension providers, today announced it is working with Yonder, the all-in-one platform to automate health insurance and retirement benefits for growing teams, “to enable companies and their UK-based employees to easily administer and… Read More

August 9, 2023 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, which claims to be one of the UK’s leading workplace pension providers, has selected Punter Southall’s Pension Potential annuity comparison tool “to help its million-plus members maximise their retirement savings and make informed decisions about researching, comparing and buying annuities.” Smart Pension, which… Read More

July 19, 2023 @ 12:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, which claims to be one of the UK’s leading workplace pension providers, announces its acquisition of Evolve Pensions, a provider in workplace pension services through its master trust the Crystal Trust. The acquisition will aim to “improve experience and provide efficiencies for the… Read More

July 17, 2023 @ 10:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, which claims to be one of the UK’s leading workplace pension providers, signs the Mansion House Compact, an industry-led voluntary expression of intent to take meaningful action to secure better outcomes for UK savers through increased investment in unlisted equities. By signing the… Read More

June 15, 2023 @ 5:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, which claims to be one of the UK’s leading workplace pension providers, has been appointed “to provide access to a workplace pension for more than 2,000 employees at Dukes Education, a group of over 40 independent nurseries, schools, and colleges in the UK… Read More

May 30, 2023 @ 10:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, which claims to be one of the UK’s leading workplace pension providers, announces the appointment of Eve Read, Senior Director of Strategic Delivery, to the new industry coalition, the Pension Equity Group. Today marks the launch of the Pensions Equity Group (‘PEG’), a… Read More

February 21, 2023 @ 9:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart, the London-headquartered fintech disrupting the global retirement savings market, has published its annual Future of Global Retirement report. This year’s report “looks at how knowledge, attitudes and concerns about retirement savings have progressed.” The report “includes findings from more than 8,000 savers across the… Read More

January 26, 2023 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, which claims to be one of the UK’s leading workplace pension providers, announces the launch of three new fully sustainable lifestyle strategies “with different growth fund options: the Smart Sustainable Growth Core Fund, Smart Sustainable Growth Fund (the Smart Pension default fund) and… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 7:16 am By Priyanka Pani  |  

The London-based leading fund manager Chrysalis Investments has reportedly picked up a £75 million stake in Smart, a retirement savings platform. As per a report by Sky News, Chrysalis will announce the funding on Monday.  Chrysallis has backed fintech companies such as Klarna, Starling Bank,… Read More

February 5, 2021 @ 10:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Barclays announced on Thursday it has joined forces with UK-based online pension provider Smart Pension to provide its network of 1,100 businesses with access to the Smart Pension platform. “Businesses that sign up through Barclays will be able to offer their employees access to the… Read More

December 5, 2019 @ 6:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital bank Revolut announced on Thursday it has teamed up with authorized by the pensions regulator, Smart Pension, to launch its new business pension offering. Users will now be able to set up their business accounts and pension auto-enrolment within minutes through this collaboration. “When… Read More