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Nest, Smart Pension and consultancy firm XPS Group have connected to the pensions dashboard programme.  This is the first stage of the dashboards programme, with connection to a centralised dashboard run by...

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has flagged significant data quality concerns as the pensions dashboards deadline approaches, warning that many schemes still carry a backlog of "data debt" caused by years of underinvestment...

Retirement fintech platform Freedom has named Damian Stancombe as its chief executive officer. Stancombe was previously a partner at Barnett Waddingham and is the founder of 60 Paydays to Retirement, a financial...

MetLife UK has expanded access to its Life and Legacy services to include employees’ parents and in-laws under its group life policies. The move is in partnership with funeral planning provider Everest,...

Government, regulators and major pension providers have launched the ‘Pound for Pound’ initiative, a pilot designed to test value-based metrics ahead of the forthcoming Value for Money framework. The initiative was unveiled...

XPS Group's trading solution, Xchange, has facilitated over £330 million worth of deals for pension schemes trading illiquid assets on the secondary market. XPS has been helping schemes trade these types of...

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has launched a £1 million programme aimed at tackling the decline in new entrants to the financial advice profession. The three-year initiative called Pathway to the Profession...

The majority of defined contribution (DC) pension savers, 97 per cent, support investing their retirement savings into affordable housing, viewing it as a key social issue, according to research from Legal &...

Younger adults feel the most confident about their likely standard of living when they retire.  More than four in 10 (44%) people aged 18–28 (Gen Z) expect their standard of living to...

Aviva has launched a new ‘flex first, fix later’ guided retirement solution for its workplace customers.  This is initially available to those saving through Aviva’s master trust, with a view to rolling...