Insurance-funded private hospital admissions reached a record 670,000 in 2025, marking the fourth consecutive annual high despite NHS waiting lists falling to their lowest level in almost three years, according to Broadstone....
Pensions could be switched more rapidly under government proposals to amend the conditions for transfer regulations. The Department of Work and Pensions is consulting on a range of changes, which include removing...
The Department for Work and Pensions has launched a consultation which sets out targeted measures to address the risk of fraud within Small Self-Administered Schemes as part of a wider government programme...
Intense competition between insurers is helping the UK’s defined benefit pension schemes achieve record buy-in pricing, according to research by consultancy Lane Clark & Peacock. There was an annual record of 367...
New rules on workplace pension communications could help improve engagement with employees and lead to better retirement decisions. This is according to a new report from the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) titled...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched civil proceedings against Neil Woodford and his investment platform W4.0 for carrying out regulated activities without authorisation. The regulator says Woodford and W4.0 have been...
Standard Life has rebranded its institutional investment platform, Phoenix Corporate Investment Services, to Standard Life Corporate Investment Solutions (CIS). CIS provides investment platform services for trust-based and unbundled pension arrangements, offering access...
PensionBee has raised concerns about the effectiveness of the government's pension scam safeguards after new data suggested that only a small proportion of transfers flagged as potentially suspicious involve genuinely high-risk cases....
Barnett Waddingham has renewed its partnership with the Pensions Management Institute (PMI), which will see it continue to offer insight and information to members on a range of administration and management issues....
The Association of Consulting Actuaries has recommended a few ‘key additions’ in response to The Pensions Regulator's consultation on its future strategy. The professional body acknowledged that TPR is aware of the...
