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The 350 largest UK-listed businesses’ defined benefit (DB) pension accounting surplus rose to £59bn from £66bn by the end of March 2024, according to Mercer’s Pensions Risk Survey data. According to Mercer,...

Smart Pension has appointed Claire Misata as business development director. Misata will take the lead in developing relationships between trustees and Employee Benefit Consultants (EBCs) for Smart Pension. Misata, who has over...

Corporate Adviser · Episode 4: Opponents To Pot For Life Lifetime Provider Many in the pension world have questioned the urgency of reform of small pots and most definitely there are misgivings...

In spite of major reforms over the past twenty years, the UK’s long-term savings system lacks coherence and strategic purpose, with different elements of the system working against each other. The government...

Learning from the pension systems of other countries makes sense.  But we cannot always ‘cut and paste’ policies between countries which may have a totally different pensions history, different labour market conditions,...

Pension ‘pots for life’ make as much sense on these shores as they do in other countries, where they are  already up and running. Firstly, the need is clear. New research by...

Margaret Snowdon has slammed HMRC for treating victims of fraud "as if they were guilting on cheating the tax man" in march on Downing Street as part of the 'Enough is Enough'...

Only 39 per cent of attendees, including pension scheme trustees, lawyers, and managers, had prepared a pensions dashboard 'project plan', according to a survey conducted during a webinar hosted by LCP. Earlier...

The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) has dropped to 3.2 per cent in the 12 months to March 2024, down from 3.4 per cent in February. While prices are continuing to rise, the rate...

Almost eight out of 10 employees say high levels of stress would cause them to leave their current job, according to new research. Unum’s latest survey shows that stress is a major...