Opinion

Everyone’s asking whether AI will replace the adviser. Farming answered that one years ago. There’s a question doing the rounds in financial advice and I’ve started to wonder if we’re asking the...

The latest VFM consultation gives concessions to schemes targeting annuity – it’s hard to see why these schemes would continue to exist. The latest iteration of the value for money framework should...

The cancer landscape is changing. More working-age people are being diagnosed, but survival rates are improving. The consequence is that more people in the workforce are living with the long-term effects of...

Recent analysis from Pensions UK should serve as a wake-up call for employers and policymakers alike. The finding that more than three-quarters of UK workers are not on track to achieve a...

For years, policymakers have worried about whether younger generations are saving enough for retirement. But what if the problem isn’t that young people aren’t saving enough, but they’re being asked to solve...

by Rachel Rickard Straus, money editor at the Daily Mail The ever-moving goalpost of state pension age looks set to bring more pre-retirees into income poverty. We are constantly reminded of the...

Vocational rehabilitation might not have received a mention in the National Cancer Plan for England (indeed, the role of work and employers barely received a passing mention), but it’s central to Sir...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published its updated pensions roadmap earlier this month. The consolidation timeline is clear. What is also visible, for anyone looking closely at the detail, is...

Patrick Heath-Lay, CEO for People’s Pension The Commission is right to recognise that the UK's main pensions challenge is improving the adequacy and fairness of the pensions system in the context of...

Lewis Daley, workplace investment lead, Royal London In DC pensions, scale is no longer a strategic ambition – it’s becoming the price of admission. The proposed Pension Schemes Bill’s £25 billion default...