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An amendment to the Pension Schemes Bill limiting the reserve power allowing the Government to direct the way pension funds invest is a welcome change, according to industry body Pensions UK. The...

More than 839,000 people contacted the Pension Tracing Service in 2025 to locate lost pension savings. This is according to Freedom of Information data from the Department for Work and Pensions, analysed...

The Broadstone Sirius Index has shown that pension scheme funding suffered setbacks in the face of considerable economic and market volatility following the ongoing US-Israeli war in Iran. The funding level of...

In recent years, the term 'targeted support' has been used widely. It has become a political and media shorthand for directing help to the people who need it most in recent weeks,...

Verlingue is looking to further expand in the UK, and is keen to hunt out appropriate acquisitions in the employee benefits space, according to Mike Latham, chief executive of the French firm’s...

Trustees should consider how a covenant is impacted by geopolitical volatility and factor that into assessment of covenant reliability, according to consultancy Lane Clark & Peacock. The statement comes at a time...

Benifex has appointed Mohamad Awada to be its chief services officer. In this role he will lead Benifex’s global professional services and consulting functions from London, with a focus on scaling the...

Canada Life has appointed Rhian Littlewood as strategic delivery director, bulk purchase annuities (BPA). Littlewood will help shape Canada Life’s growing footprint in the BPA market and will join the BPA Senior...

The Iran conflict, which escalated in the second half of Q1, triggered a 22.5 per cent quarter by quarter decline in deal value and a 12.4 per cent drop in deal count...

I have spent two decades talking to financial planners about technology and learned one thing which is that the profession is the ultimate chameleon.  We’ve evolved from the manual grind of stock...