Opinion

SPONSORED CONTENT Now that we are several years into the mass conversion of DC schemes to a master trust, it feels like a sensible time to review whether or not employers are...

The job offers are accepted, new starters join the ranks of a company and they go into their workplace pension scheme. Brilliant – job done! In fact, it’s just the start. Many...

I have long considered that the increase in women’s State Pension Age may have created injustice and hardship, but it is not clear this qualifies as discrimination. I believe there is a...

We accept all employers without filtering or underwriting. But being in this position, we have a frighteningly clear picture of the growing issue of small deferred pots – which are estimated to...

Learning from other countries’ pension reforms is difficult to do as the political and economic context from which such systems emerge are often very different. This means that it is not usually...

I’ve been waiting for a while for anyone to come up with a good argument as to why introducers – particularly those that intervene on DB pension transfers – should not be banned....

Never, when I used to do face-to-face pitches, would I ever have been interrupted by a rabbit – that’s just been one of the many challenges of the new virtual pitching environment in...

The defined contribution pensions market in the UK remains in long-term transition. Factors contributing to this change over the last few years include auto-enrolment, the rapid growth of master trusts as providers...

If the lockdown period has taught us anything it’s that a return to a pre-Covid workplace and ‘business as usual’ is highly unlikely, and in most cases unrealistic. This could actually be...

It has long been my belief that bringing together the detail of how an individual spends their money day to day, month to month, has huge potential to help provide them with...