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There has been a significant fall in the number of pension savers seeking protection against the Lifetime Allowance according to new HMRC data. This data — supplied in response to a freedom...

A big majority of pensions professionals are sceptical that the pensions dashboard, currently scheduled for 2023, will be delivered on time. More than three quarters of respondents surveyed by the Pensions Management...

Britax Childcare Group has completed a deal with Just to insure 70 per cent of the liabilities across three separate DB schemes in a single transaction. The £30m buy-in transaction, completed in...

Regulations facilitating collective defined contribution (CDC) schemes need to be made more flexible to make them fairer to younger people and reduce intergenerational cross-subsidies warns LCP. As the Government’s consultation on the...

The value of DB transfers is rising back towards the record highs seen last year, according to the latest data from XPS Pensions Group. The group’s Transfer Value Index rose sharply during...

Aon has launched a new tool for trustees and scheme sponsors to help them explore how a collective defined contribution scheme (CDC) might meet their future needs.  The tool is designed for...

Risk transfer volumes are expected to exceed £8bn in the first half of 2021, but this is below expected levels, according to new analysis by Hymans Robertson. The pension consultants have looked...

LCP is urging trustees not to underestimate the challenges of climate change regulation, as a new survey from the pension consultants shows more than one in four DB schems are aiming for just “minimum...

Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has appointed Matt Dodds to lead its UK Client Data Services within its pensions administration business. Dodd joins from ITM where he was a director.  In this new role...

The financial health of the UK’s defined benefit schemes failed to improve over the last quarter according to Legal & General Investment Management’s defined benefit (DB) health tracker. It points out that...