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Duty should be on trustees to support decumulation decisions through the offer of products and services. Speaking at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) annual conference pension head of policy collective...

Charges across most types of large pension schemes fell between 2022 and 2023, with bundled own-trust, unbundled own-trust and master trusts charges all falling, according to research from Barnett Waddingham.  A report...

Only the poorest pensioners stand will see the full benefit of the 8.5 per cent increase in the state pension  expected next year, under the terms of the triple lock. This should...

The government is focused on making the UK pensions and investment market the best version of itself rather than “cloning” other countries’ approaches. Speaking at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA)...

The DB pensions industry, although unintentionally, operates in misalignment with the government's productive finance agenda due to differing incentives. This was the main takeaway from a WTW presentation at the Pensions and...

Private sector DB pensioners will see their income decline in real terms for the second successive year, as a result of the continued high inflation levels and the caps applied to limited...

Investment risk remains the biggest concern among DB trustees, pension managers, and scheme sponsors,  and seen as the factor most likely to prevent them paying member benefits, although there are growing concerns...

Premier Choice Healthcare (PCH) has continued on its acquisition trail with the purchase of Brighton-based intermediary Healthcover. PCH says this latest deal with strengthen its position in international PMI market. It is...

Wages are outstripping inflation, with the today CPI data from the ONS showing prices rising at 6.7 per cent year-on-year in September. This means that pensioners look set for an inflation-busting pay...