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The fear of ever-expanding regulation and the prospect of big bills for helping staff with financial matters has had a freezing impact on employers offering retirement guidance to their people. Punter Southall...

The soaring cost of professional indemnity insurance is impacting consumers ability to access pension freedoms, with a third seeing an increase of more than 50 per cent since last year. Research from...

Just 17 per cent of employers are using video conferencing for pension surgeries despite increased home working, research from Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing has shown. The research, which was conducted in...

Phoenix Group has become a signatory to the UN-supported Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI), confirming its commitment to including environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investment decision making and ownership. As at...

The sad news that the fashion retailer Arcadia Group is set to enter administration will be a blow to its thousands of workers and pension scheme members. But there are four key...

 Dalriada Trustees has appointed Tiziana Perrella as a professional trustee. Perrella has more than 20 years’ experience as an ‘endgame specialist’, offering advice to both trustees and schemes across the DB and...

Aon has published a new guide to help improving understanding of diversity and inclusion considerations among pension scheme trustees and members.  This paper looks at how these issues can impact decision making...

Trustees have a false sense of confidence in their long-term strategy with nine out of 10 believing they are prepared for the future, but a similar proportion having had to change tack...

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has raised a supplementary levy due to rising claims, which will raise costs for advisers and wealth managers.  This £92m supplementary levy was announced in the FSCS’s...

A technical change to the way the inflation index is calculated, as announced alongside the Spending Review, is an unlikely candidate for grabbing people’s attention. But if you’re one of the millions...