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Pension schemes are being urged to send DB members looking to transfer a Covid-19 transfer warning letter highlighting the risks of doing so during the pandemic, following new guidance from the regulator...

Scottish Widows has appointed Stuart Reid to a newly-created role of head of business development, to lead growth in its contract based and master trust schemes. He joins the insurer on 1st...

Tom McPhail, arguably the most high-profile pensions pundit of the last 20 years and one of the sector’s most influential lobbyists, is leaving Hargreaves Lansdown to work for a cycling and e-bike...

Gilt prices have risen sharply in recent months, on the back of volatile stock markets. One beneficiary of this has been those pension savers are still in schemes that are targeting an annuity...

There is a huge communications challenge for the pension industry, according to leading pension campaigner, Baroness Ros Altmann, in the wake of one of the most dramatic short-term market corrections in recent...

In an industry full of buzz words, there is one which crops up more often than most – consolidation. In reality, pensions have been consolidating over the last decade, an evolution largely...

The Covid crash was the test that pension funds didn’t want – at least not yet. It has proved an examination of the pensions sector on so many levels. Most fundamentally it has...

People approaching retirement have far higher levels of anxiety about the financial consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic than younger investors, according to new research. Aegon has launched a new tracker survey to...

Baroness Jeannie Drake, one original architects of auto-enrolment has been appointed to The People’s Pension board of trustees. This is one of two new appointments. The People’s Pension has also appointed consulting...

The master trust sector is predicted to grow to £200bn by 2025, by when at least six schemes expected to have assets in excess of £10bn, according to the third edition of...