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In recent decades, individual investors have had a reasonable choice of options certainly in terms of mutual funds and retail pensions. One oft-cited milestone in the UK was the launch of the Friends...

The latest labour force survey shows a growing number of 50-to 64-year-olds returning, with financial pressures from the soaring cost of living as one of the main reasons. An ageing population, along...

One in four (26 per cent) institutional investors are looking to dramatically increase allocation to illiquid assets in the next three years while, while a further 59 per cent expect allocations to...

  Half of us (50%) feel overwhelmed by the amount of information on pensions, and 4 in 10 don’t know what to do with it all, according to Standard Life’s Retirement Voice...

Millions of savers have been brought into the pension system thanks to a successful auto-enrolment strategy that has relied on the power of inertia. But while workplace defaults have proved to be...

Against a backdrop of economic turbulence marked by inflation, surging interest rates, volatile market fluctuations, and unexpected changes to the lifetime allowance in the Budget, the landscape of defined contribution (DC) decumulation...

Social media ‘finfluencers’ face tough new rules, as the regulator aims to improve the way that financial products are promoted online.  The regulator says its proposed new rules are designed to improve...

Smart Pension has acquired Evolve Pensions, owner of the £750m Crystal master trust. The master trust sector has seen considerable consolidation in recent years and this latest deal, which had been expected...

Standard Life has appointed Amy Madden to the newly created role of customer office director. Madden, who has over ten years of senior leadership experience in the financial services industry, will oversee...

More than one in two higher-rate taxpayers have restarted or boosted pension payments in light of the recent changes to the lifetime allowance (LTA), or says they plan to do so in...