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The Pension Regulator is actively supporting – if not quite championing - pension scheme consolidation for both DB and DC pensions. For DB the aim is to increase the financial resilience of...

Matthews is a professional independent trustee and is currently chair of the Royal Mail Pension Plan, the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme, the Siemens Benefit Scheme, the Vodafone Group Pension Scheme and the...

Open to both intermediaries and providers, the academy will launch with two workshops. Areas covered include understanding the market, products and added-value benefits, taxation, legislation and underwriting. The first workshop is in...

Echoing Government data showing the biggest upswing in participation in auto-enrolment was amongst young savers, Scottish Widows’ 14th Retirement Report, which focuses on adequacy, found 39 per cent of UK workers aged...

The Environmental Audit Committee’s findings from its green finance enquiry, which found that pension scheme trustees’ fiduciary duty is often misinterpreted as a duty to maximise short-term returns, has also criticised the FCA’s reluctance...

Mercer says the FTSE350 pension gap fell by £16bn in May to £34bn on an accounting basis, continuing the significant reductions achieved over the last two years. The gap stood at £72bn...

But the DWP’s annual report on employee participation in workplace pensions found that in 2017, 73 per cent of eligible employees had saved into a workplace pension in at least three of the...

The impact of the ageing population on the nation’s workforce is accelerating. The increase in older workers is helping the UK tackle its rising dependency ratio and it skills shortage, expanding the...

Focus Oxford has seven registered individuals and been in existence for 27 years, offering advice to individuals and corporates across pensions, investments, mortgages and life assurance. PSA says the deal will give...

Speaking at a seminar in Madrid today, Crook set out the challenging market dynamics facing GIP providers, who have seen the cost of delivering GIP benefits go up by 15 per cent...