Nest, Smart Pension, The People’s Pension and Universities Superannuation Scheme have all publicly backed the Cost Transparency Initiative as a means for improving costs and charges measurement. The four master trust providers...
The fierce debate about the issues of pension transfers from defined benefit schemes shows no sign of abating. There is general agreement that problems emerged in the wake of the pension freedoms, launched...
XPS Pensions Group has promoted Ben Gold to the role of head of investment. The previous head of investment Patrick McCoy has been promoted to the new role of head of advisory...
Autoenrolment.co.uk Master Trust (Smart Pension) and the Lewis Workplace Pension Trust are the latest two master trusts to achieve authorisation, the Pensions Regulator has confirmed. This brings the total number of master trusts to...
LEBC Group has agreed with the FCA to stop advising on transfers out of defined benefit schemes, raising questions over adviser capacity to implement transfer exercises. A statement from LEBC says it...
Caroline Rookes, the former CEO of the Money Advice Service, has been appointed as the first interim chair of The Pensions Ombudsman Prior to her spell at the MAS Rookes was director...
The Government's announcement that state pension increases will be guaranteed for only the next three years is ‘deeply worrying’ for ex-pats living in Europe says Royal London director of policy Steve Webb....
EAPs have seen a pretty dramatic evolution. Starting out life in the 1940s as a very focused solution to white-collar alcoholism in US office culture, their remit widened over the decades to...
Pooling. It’s not new. It’s not sexy. But it does have the potential to bring to international clients – even the smaller ones – cost efficiencies, control and essential local and global employee...
In recent years there has been renewed scrutiny of gender equality within the financial services industry. More often than not, this has focused on the lack of women in both senior management...
