Economy

Value for money in pensions is tough to define. With most products and services we can judge value at the time - we look at the price and we can see enough...

Here’s a question: how often do you think about your impact on the environment? Perhaps with relative regularity, maybe when a news story breaks about deforestation or wild weather, worrying wildfires and...

The health of the UK’s Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes continues to improve, with these schemes now more financially robust than they were pre-Covid. Legal & General Investment Management DB Health Tracker...

FCA feedback statement 21/7 is another significant step towards enabling workplace savings to become the cornerstone of financial planning for the tens of millions who can no longer afford traditional financial advice....

The concept of ‘value for money’ is a subject of perennial debates across financial services, which seldom result in meaningful agreement on what the phrase means. This has not stopped regulators putting VFM,...

To mark the start of Mental Health Awareness week (May 10- 16th) employee benefits specialists and insurers are publishing new information to help employers better support their employees’ mental health in the...

Do pension providers invest their customers’ money in an ESG way they expect them to? They haven’t always in the past, but more providers are starting to, and net zero commitments are...

Running a smaller defined benefit pension scheme can be a real challenge and comes at a vast expense. There have been more than 1,000 new pieces of pensions legislation since the turn...

Almost one in two (44 per cent) of pension savers said their would switch to a ‘green’ product if one was offered by their provider, according to new YouGov research. This research,...

The Pensions Regulator and Pension Protection Fund are proposing changes to the way DB schemes submit information annually on their investment strategy and assets held. The two bodies are proposing a new...