SPONSORED CONTENT What impact will the Covid-19 epidemic have on growth in the master trust sector? Master trusts were already growing fast. We expect the financial pressure on UK PLC caused by...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is leading the charge on the battle of the bulge. It’s a personal mission and the timing, in theory, couldn’t be better considering the link between obesity and...
The new rules, including the ban on contingent charging, in FCA Policy Statement 20/6, come into effect next month and we are already starting to see advisers change their processes and pricing....
I’m sorry to announce that I’ve been made unemployed. Not from my day job, thank Christ, at least not yet, but from my role as a trustee on the Telegraph’s staff pension...
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....
