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The PPF 7800 Index for August shows the aggregate funding surplus for the DB universe climbing £10.6bn to £241.1bn, a further boost to funding resilience. Meanwhile, the funding ratio increased by 1.5 percentage...

Scottish Widows has appointed Jenny Davidson as intermediary wealth director, effective October 2025. Davidson has over 30 years of experience in financial services across firms such as Standard Life, abrdn and Quilter....

Across the UK pensions landscape, there’s a growing sense of unease. Trustees and advisers are being asked to make investments that benefit not just their members but the UK economy more broadly....

Two in five IFAs believe the FCA’s proposed shake-up of the advice-guidance boundary will increase demand for their services, according to Opinium’s latest IFA Barometer. The survey, published as the regulator’s Advice...

Railpen and the sustainability consultancy Chronos Sustainability have published a new report, offering practical guidance to investors on managing AI-related risks within portfolio companies. The report, ‘Achieving Effective AI Governance’, comes in...

UK defined benefit (DB) pension schemes’ aggregate surplus against long-term funding targets rose to around £211bn in July 2025, according to XPS Group. That’s £5bn higher than in June and £41bn more...

Vitality has appointed Dr Rishi Patel as clinical operations director. Patel, who was previously at Bupa, joins the leadership team at Vitality’s health insurance business to lead the clinical operations function. In...

Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock has called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to introduce VAT on private healthcare services, suggesting the measure could raise billions to support NHS reform and funding. Kinnock argued...

The average time to complete a simple pension transfer fell to 10.8 working days in the 12 months to 30 June 2025, down from 11 days at the end of March, according...

Eligible private sector employees paid a record £25.5bn into workplace pensions in 2024, according to analysis by Broadstone. According to an analysis of newly published Department for Work and Pensions data, the...