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Now: Pensions will for the first time offer a range of additional investment options alongside its default fund. These will be available to members from summer 2024 and are designed to offer...

Independent Governance Group (IGG) has made some significant hires, adding twelve new members to the team including two trustee directors and two trustee managers.  Catherine Edmondson and Debra Soper join IGG as...

Trustees looking for a future DB buyout need to prioritise data quality and administration with insurers now in a stronger financial position and looking to cherry pick the schemes that are most...

Falling levels of home ownership are opening a fault line under the retirement income security of more than a million pensioner households with the proportion in private rented housing set to triple,...

Guiide has appointed Ruston Smith as chair of its board. Smith has more than 35 years of senior executive and non-executive experience in the retail, pensions and asset management industry. He currently holds...

UK employers contributed £38.6bn into workplace pensions last year, according to the latest data from the Department of Work and Pensions.  The data showed that the employees in the private sector contributed...

CCLA has facilitated the creation of AdviserAction, a membership organisation comprising of select advisory firms, to engage with companies on sustainability issues. Castlefield, Clear Financial Advice, ESG Accord, Fintel PLC, Kellands Chartered...

The government has issued the new Finance Bill which contains provisions to formally abolish the lifetime allowance (LTA) on pensions.  The abolition of this LTA was initially included in last year’s Spring...

Pension schemes have given a cautious welcome to changes made by the Financial Conduct Authority to its final rules on the new sustainability disclosure requirement (SDR). These new SDR rules will come...

The cost of private medical treatment is expected to rise by 15 per cent in 2024, following an 8.5 per cent increase in 2023 — an ‘unprecedented’ sustained increase according to the...