The paper argues that tax thresholds are the largest mitigating factor on take-home pay for a low earner. While April’s increase in auto-enrolment contributions for someone earning £15,000 will reduce take-home pay...
Research conducted across 3,000 respondents found that just 9 per cent are contributing the recommended 16 per cent of salary into their pensions yet 43 per cent think they will retire before the age...
The well-publicised problems with advice on transfers from the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) has ben arguably the most high-profile test to date of the pension freedom and choice policy. While sponsor...
The Work and Pensions Committee has today published a report calling for all pension providers to offer a single default drawdown option and all schemes, including DB, to be required to give...
The merger was project managed by JLT Employee Benefits (JLT) and brings in over £5m a year in annual contributions to The People’s Pension, rising to over £10m following next week’s mandatory...
Widows says the new product suite will enable it to compete for the very largest schemes, as well as enabling intermediaries to build bespoke client investments or offer ready-made solutions for a...
TPR is prosecuting national recruitment firm Workchain Ltd, as well as its directors and some of its senior staff on the suspicion that they illegally opted employees out of their pension scheme....
The code, which is out for consultation until May 8, outlines how master trusts will be expected to meet the new authorisation criteria and what they will need to evidence for TPR...
Figures from the joint FCA and the Pensions Regulator paper Regulating the pensions and retirement income sector : Our strategic approach show that on average, people using drawdown are taking an annual income of...
Publishing new rules on pension transfer advice, the FCA has launched a consultation seeking views on additional changes, including adviser charging structures. In June 2017, the FCA proposed changes to the rules...
