The Financial Conduct Authority and the Pensions Regulator have announced a joint regulatory strategy aimed at improving retirement outcomes for consumers. This will include a wide-ranging strategy review next year, which will...
The voluntary Simpler Annual Statement has been developed collaboratively by Ruston Smith, Co-Chair of the DWP’s 2017 Automatic Enrolment Review Advisory Board and Chair of the Tesco Pension Fund, Vincent Franklin and...
Speaking at the PLSA annual conference today, Opperman will say the 100-day transfers are “outdated” in the modern digital age. He has backed the Transfers and Re-Registrations Industry Group (TRIG) framework to...
Suggest a potentially disastrous outcome and follow it up with an alternative that would previously have been highly unpopular, but is then greeted with massive relief. It’s a strategy that has become a standard part of...
It is estimated there are 1.6m lost pension pots, with a total value of almost £20bn, according to new industry research. This research was carried out by the Association of British Insurers...
This is the first acquisition for ITM since it completed a management buyout in May this year. Faraday Tracing Bureau offers specialist tracing services for pension providers, schemes and third party administrators...
The rise of the master trust seems unstoppable. Auto-enrolment has brought 10 million new savers into these giant schemes, while pressure from the Pensions Regulator and employer demand has seen many own-trust...
The debate over whether trust or contract pension arrangements are superior is decades old. Yet with such a high level of regulatory change, product development and scale on the master trust side, the answer to the question...
More than eight out of 10 employers (83 per cent) say their workforce would value "free" financial advice as an employee benefit. But despite this just a third of employers (33 per...
Whyte will be responsible for growing and developing SEI’s DC proposition which includes its master trust. She will be based in the company’s London office but will oversee business development across Europe...
