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Isio has appointed Vito Faircloth to the newly created role of head of digital solutions. This is the first senior appointment for Isio, which was formerly the pensions advisory business of KPMG...

Pension providers and advisers have reported widespread confusion as to how the Job Retention Scheme will impact firms who use salary sacrifice schemes for pension payments - saying more clarification from the...

Employers struggling to meet their auto-enrolment and other workplace pensions obligations can expect a ‘proportionate’ risk-based approach to enforcement says The Pensions Regulator. Issuing a Covid-19 guidance update, TPR says auto-enrolment contributions...

Scottish Widows has appointed former executive director for regulatory policy at The Pensions Regulator Andrew Warwick-Thompson as the new chair of its master trust. Warwick-Thompson takes over from Kim Nash, who steps...

The FCA has confirmed the delay to the implementation of post-retirement investment pathways that could have nudged investors now in secure cash investments into equities and other risky assets. In January the...

Lisa Mundy has been appointed as the  BESTrustee representative on the Mercer Master Trust board.  In this role, Mundy will lead the administration and communications sub-committee. Mundy has 28 years of experience in...

The government has responded to high profile corporate failures such as BHS and Carillion by tabling new legislation to bolster The Pensions Regulator’s powers and discourage corporate and individual behaviours that may...

Smarterly, the workplace savings fintech, has acquired Salvus Master Trust for an undisclosed sum. The deal is the first acquisition of an authorised master trust following The Pension Regulator’s master trust authorisation...

The FCA has confirmed it is reconsidering implementing set investment pathways for investors going into drawdown, in the wake of the Covid crisis and subsequent market turmoil. In a letter to chief...

As a tool, currency hedging can form an important part of a defined contribution (DC) scheme’s overall approach to risk management. Yet, in the past, not all schemes have deployed hedging, with cost...