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Fewer people are dying, with mortality levels falling to a record low in the first half of of 2025. This fall was driven by a significant drop in mortality among those of pensionable...

The Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA) has published a revised 2025 edition of its Data Matching Convention (DMC) Guidance, providing more detailed criteria for how schemes and providers should match member data...

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has openly challenged the Government’s policy of mandating pension scheme investment in private market assets, casting doubt over whether the plans will be implemented. According to...

Sackers has named Alexandra Bellis and Enda Kerr as associates, taking its total number of lawyers to 79. Bellis has five years' post-qualification experience, having trained at Sharpe Pritchard before qualifying at...

Savers welcome the potential for the FCA's targeted support to provide more relevant help with retirement income decisions, greater direction, and the filtering out of irrelevant information, according to research by Standard Life....

The PLSA has rebranded itself as Pensions UK. But despite the name change its retirement living standards invoke extreme reactions amongst the public, which is a fantastic achievement. At least it gets...

The Government has made no secret of their desire for pension schemes to play a bigger  part in boosting individual security and UK economic growth through increased exposure  to UK productive investments...

One in four younger workers are deferring retirement savings, on the hope that an later inheritance will plug the pensions gap. These findings were in Standard Life’s latest retirement voice report. It...

DB funding continue to improve in June, thanks to rising asset values, although economic uncertainty could act as a brake on this positive trend. This was demonstrated with the aggregate surplus of...

Barnett Waddingham has acquired specialist risk advisory firm Risk Evolves. The consultancy firm says this acquisition strengthens its risk and resilience offering, enabling it to offer clients advisory services around cyber security,...