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It has been a remarkable three weeks in the world of politics, economics, sterling and gilt markets and pensions with events from each sphere having a profound effect on all the others....

Despite the Prime Minister's April’s National Insurance (NI) contribution increase of 1.25 per cent, the anticipated rush of businesses implementing a salary sacrifice arrangement as a more efficient way for employees to pay...

Business journalists used to have an award called ‘the golden bollock’. It was presented every year at the TUC conference to the hack who had written the story with the most outlandish clangers...

Hargreaves Lansdown has improved its pension transfer times by over 60 per cent, according to data from the latest Origo Transfer Index. Hargreaves Lansdown’s performance has seen some significant improvements over the past...

Members of defined contribution (DC) pension funds in their 50s or 60s, are even more at risk than those in DB schemes: Members of DC schemes, especially if they are in lifestyle...

The Pensions Regulator has offered guidance to trustees, setting out action they need to take before the Bank of England’s ends its bond buyback programme at the end of this week. The...

Ross Trustees has made eight new hires over the last quarter, expanding its team by 10 per cent.  The pension services firm says this expanded team of 67 specialist will help it...

Zedra has acquired Clear Pen Solutions, a professional trustee service, increasing its footprint in the UK pensions services and corporate pensions market.  This is the latest acquisition by Zedra, which snapped up...

Smart Pension has acquired Ensign Master Trust, its eighth acquisition since launch. The Ensign Master Trust has £158m in assets, and runs the workplace pensions for 5,100 members across 62 employers. It...

Ten years on from the launch of auto-enrolment and two decades from the Pensions Commission that shaped it, the world of workplace pensions has been transformed. Reducing means testing, raising the state...