Concerns grow over too-poor-to-retire employees
Almost half of employers worry that older employees will have insufficient pension savings to be able to retire, prompting a call for them to review what they are aiming to get from...
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Round table: What role for advisers in a master trust world?
Master trusts are transforming the face of workplace pensions, absorbing most of the 10m people automatically enrolled since 2012 and taking over governance, investment management and administration for an increasing number of...
Round table: Master trusts – Differentiation through innovation
As today’s master trusts evolve into the asset-rich behemoths of tomorrow, competition between them is set to become increasingly intense. Deeper member insights, intelligent defaults and investment innovation will all play a...
Auto-enrolment increases – traps and opt-outs
A mere thirteen years after Adair Turner’s Pensions Commission recommended that UK workers be automatically enrolled into a workplace pension, contributions will finally rise to their full level of 8 per cent...
Rudd sets out conditions for dashboard legislation
Pension schemes will be compelled to supply data to the pension dashboard in a phased rollout that will see big DC schemes enrolled first, the government has confirmed. Publishing its response to...
Younger employees need clearer guidance on pensions
Millennials have a “worrying lack” of awareness as to how pensions work, according to a new survey from Invesco. The company found the majority of those aged between 24 and 34 did not...
L&G master trusts gain authorisation
The Pensions Regulator has confirmed that two L&G master trusts have now gained authorisation. Legal & General WorkSave Mastertrust, and Legal & General Worksave Mastertrust (RAS) become the second and third trusts...
Band earnings warning as contributions increase
The Government is facing calls from the pensions industry to reform auto-enrolment contribution rules, to help boost overall levels of pension savings. These calls come as the AE minimum contribution levels are...
Brakes slammed on rising retirement incomes: DWP
The average income received by pensioners fell last year, according to figures published by the Department of Work and Pensions. Its retirement income statistics show that the average weekly income for all...
Dale Critchley: Age old problem for CDC
Margaret Thatcher once claimed that “There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families”. Since then the collectivism of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes...
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