Pension trustee and founder of Mindful Pensions David Butcher has launched The Mindfulness Experience (TME), an experiential learning programme exploring mindfulness. TME emphasises mindfulness for resilience, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence. It goes...
The Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) is calling for clearer guidance to help trust-based pension schemes make the most of targeted support. In its response to the FCA’s Advice Guidance Boundary Review,...
SEI has appointed Leila Samara as client relationship director of defined contribution (DC). Samara has nearly 20 years of experience in the pensions industry, particularly in client management, consultancy, and proposition development....
The Chancellor’s sweeping Mansion House reforms for DC pensions are designed to achieve the government’s ambition of a highly consolidated DC pension market which can invest at scale to boost UK economic...
Has the recent increase in diversity on pension trustee boards had a positive impact upon the quality of their decision making? Although the impact is very hard to measure, it is fair...
A British Armed Forces veteran has been awarded £92,802.71 in compensation after being mis-sold a pension transfer that cost him nearly £93,000 in lost retirement funds in 1993. Mr J was advised...
DC providers are directing an “outsized portion” of illiquid asset investments into UK opportunities, according to research from Isio. It has looked at private assets strategies across the defaults of 15 DC...
The gender pension gap looks set to widen, with fewer working age women contributing to DC workplace schemes, when compared to men. Analysis of the Office of National Statistics’ wealth & assets...
Benefex and Benify have officially joined together to create Benifex, supporting over 3,000 organisations in more than 100 countries. Benifex customers will benefit from a platform that benchmarks millions of benefit enrolments,...
There are concerns that the government may have put on hold reforms that would require pension schemes to offer retirement income solutions to all savers. This was one of the issues highlighted...
