Intense competition between insurers is helping the UK’s defined benefit pension schemes achieve record buy-in pricing, according to research by consultancy Lane Clark & Peacock. There was an annual record of 367...
Financial wellbeing specialists Wealth at Work has launched a retirement guidance service designed to help pension schemes, trustees, and employers support members approaching retirement. The move by WaW comes following the passing...
Union members have called for the Government to impose financial penalties on Capita and award compensation to Civil Service Pension Scheme members, after its “disastrous performance” and “unacceptable” delays to payments. The...
Mattioli Woods will retire the Kingswood Group brand following the merger of the two firms in October last year. The combined employee benefits and wealth management group, which has £25bn in assets...
New rules on workplace pension communications could help improve engagement with employees and lead to better retirement decisions. This is according to a new report from the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) titled...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched civil proceedings against Neil Woodford and his investment platform W4.0 for carrying out regulated activities without authorisation. The regulator says Woodford and W4.0 have been...
Cash plan provider BHSF has partnered with Spectrum.Life to enhance the range of mental health support services offered to employees. This expands on EAP services that were previously offered via Perkbox. Employees...
Standard Life has rebranded its institutional investment platform, Phoenix Corporate Investment Services, to Standard Life Corporate Investment Solutions (CIS). CIS provides investment platform services for trust-based and unbundled pension arrangements, offering access...
PensionBee has raised concerns about the effectiveness of the government's pension scam safeguards after new data suggested that only a small proportion of transfers flagged as potentially suspicious involve genuinely high-risk cases....
Barnett Waddingham has renewed its partnership with the Pensions Management Institute (PMI), which will see it continue to offer insight and information to members on a range of administration and management issues....
