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The organisation says that there is no need to go beyond scrapping qualifying and band earnings and bringing auto-enrolment down to age 18, as a survey of 44,000 workplace pension members it...

But former pensions minister Steve Webb, of Royal London, says the creation of the proposed new criminal offence of ‘recklessly’ underfunding a company pension scheme could miss its intended target and be a...

A resolution was passed at a general meeting of the company today by a majority of more than 99 per cent of shareholder votes cast. Barry O’Dwyer, chief executive of Standard Life...

Smart Pension Limited, which runs the Autoenrolment.co.uk master trust, failed to tell The Pensions Regulator (TPR) that 498 employers had failed to pay contributions that were due. Smart Pension also didn’t inform the pension scheme...

The concept of retirement has been taking a new shape in the UK. An employee’s planned retirement age is  a target they can set for themselves, rather than a date determined by...

Ellipse was founded in 2009 and has grown to become the 6th largest UK group life provider based on 2017 new business volumes. It reached an 8 per cent share of new...

Called Yulife, the insurtech business describes itself as the UK’s first ‘lifestyle insurance business’ and plans to use AI and behavioural science to enhance and protect lives. A simple digital product will...

The acquisition of the firm, founded by Paul Brantingham and Simon Derby, is the first specialist employee benefits business bought by PIB since it set out on the acquisition trail in 2016....

Analysis of Now: Pensions’ 1.7 million members shows residents of Cumbria are the most likely to opt out, with 8.2 per cent doing so. That is more than twice the rate of...

The report, authored by Allianz Global Investors vice-chair Elizabeth Corley, chair of the advisory group on impact investing appointed by the government, says the financial services industry should be able to answer...