SEI has appointed Emma Skedgel as sales director of defined contribution (DC). Skedgel has over 20 years of pensions industry experience and brings expertise in client service and consultant relationships. She most...
I recently described the role of a trustee as a retirement guardian angel, and that is an incredibly privileged position. It is also an incredibly difficult one. Most of the time, members...
UK pension schemes and administrators are being urged to upgrade systems in preparation for Collective Defined Contribution (CDC) reforms. Under current proposed timelines, multi-employer CDC schemes are expected to secure regulatory approval in...
Up to 2m deferred pension pots could be merged into single account if five major AE providers become ‘default’ consolidators under current government proposals. These figures are part of the Pensions Data...
As uncertainty characterises today’s market backdrop, investment portfolios are navigating a new normal. Structural shifts such as rising government debt, ageing populations and sustained higher interest rates, to name but a few,...
Two thirds of pensions schemes are anticipating a significant spike in member activity once the dashboard launches, according to a poll of trustees and pensions managers by WTW. Their survey found over...
Broadstone has appointed Kelly Parsons to the newly created role of head of DC proposition. The consultancy said this reflected its significant recent growth in this area, as and its ambitions to...
Whenever I start writing about what the industry calls ‘the advice/guidance boundary’, I remind myself of when I was editor of Moneywise magazine back in 2015. A reader, Mark, took us up...
AJ Bell has launched a new parliamentary petition calling on the government to commit to a 'Pension Tax Lock', pledging not to change tax-free cash entitlement and tax relief for at least...
The surplus of UK DB pension schemes maintained a £222bn aggregate surplus against long-term funding targets, up £2bn in September 2025 and £48bn year-on-year. According to XPS, schemes achieved a record funding...
