DC

Broadstone has appointed Kelly Parsons to the newly created role of head of DC proposition. The consultancy said this reflected its significant recent growth in this area, as and its ambitions to...

Whenever I start writing about what the industry calls ‘the advice/guidance boundary’, I remind myself of when I was editor of Moneywise magazine back in 2015. A reader, Mark, took us up...

AJ Bell has launched a new parliamentary petition calling on the government to commit to a 'Pension Tax Lock', pledging not to change tax-free cash entitlement and tax relief for at least...

The surplus of UK DB pension schemes maintained a £222bn aggregate surplus against long-term funding targets, up £2bn in September 2025 and £48bn year-on-year. According to XPS, schemes achieved a record funding...

TPT Retirement Solutions has appointed Ruari Grant as its new head of policy & external affairs. Grant joins TPT from Pensions UK, where he was most recently head of DC & master...

Smart Pension is marking Customer Service Week by publishing its weekly average call wait times on its website and app. The new tracker allows savers to see how long it takes to...

Canada Life has appointed Dominic Carpenter as commercial & strategy director, bulk purchase annuities (BPA).  Carpenter joins from Phoenix Group, where he most recently served as group capital director. He also spent...

L&G has expanded its Guided Retirement Planner, broadening access to serve the needs of younger DC members. According to L&G, the launch aims to help them better understand their retirement savings and...

Policy makers are doing everything they can to facilitate bulk transfers of defined contribution pensions as part of the broader agenda to deliver larger workplace schemes that hopefully are better value and...

The combined IAS19 pension surplus for FTSE100 UK pension schemes stood at over £55bn as of 30 September 2025, representing an aggregate funding level of 120 per cent, according to LCP’s Pension...