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Paul Bucksey will become the new managing director of Smart Pension workplace business.  This appointment comes as part of a reorganisation of the business which sees Smart separate out its platform business...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s rumoured plan to ditch Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation measure in tomorrow’s spending review could wipe around 0.8 per cent a year off payment increases. The Chancellor is rumoured...

Rumours that the chancellor will look to reduce higher rate tax relief on pensions, to help make cost savings in a post Covid environment, have surfaced again.  There has been speculation that...

Fintech advice firm Wealth Wizards will have its employee-based app featured in a new ITN programme on financial wellbeing.  The programme, hosted by former Watchdog presenter Alice Beer, will look at what...

DWP head of delivery, work and health unit Jennifer Heigham will deliver the keynote speech at Corporate Adviser’s Workplace Protection & Wellbeing: Building Back Resilience virtual conference next month. Heigham, who works on...

Those who have transferred out of a defined benefit scheme over the past 30 years now urgently need to seek advice on whether they are due top-up payments, following a high court...

An at-retirement collective DC structure could deliver sustainable income 57 per cent higher than can be achieved through income drawdown and 49 per cent more than an annuity, according to figures from...

Trustees and IGCs will have an increasingly important role to play in the DC pension sector to ensure good outcomes for members.  This was one of the main conclusions of a Q&A...

The Pensions Regulator has confirmed that it has not identified “serious risks or issues” in the master trust sector as a result of the Covid pandemic. Speaking at Corporate Adviser virtual Master...

The pensions industry gave a cautious welcome to comments by the Bank of England governor indicating support for looser regulations to enable DC schemes to invest in illiquid infrastructure and property assets....