The Financial Conduct Authority has confirmed it has not started enforcement procedures against any firms for failings under the Mifid II regime, despite widespread errors being reported. Under a Freedom of Information...
Smart Pension is launching a new European-wide workplace pension product, in partnership with Revolut. The collaboration allows companies across Europe to sign up to Revolut’s business account and set up a workplace...
The Pensions Policy Institute has set out a detailed analysis of how the main parties’ manifesto pledges could effect pensions and retirement policy in the UK. This briefing note compares the main...
The ILC’s What it’s worth: Revisiting the value of financial advice research shows that those receiving this advice between 2001 and 2006 saw their pensions and financial assets boosted by £47,706 in...
Two years ago, the Financial Conduct Authority published a damning assessment of asset management groups, due to the opaque charging structures being levied on pension schemes. Remedies put forward from the 2017 Asset...
The Pensions Regulator has published new guidance for trustees and corporate advisers, to help them meet new rules on the appointment of fiduciary managers. From December this year trustees will be legally...
Before freedom and choice, the workplace pensions landscape was considerably more predictable than it is today. Employers who offered a defined benefit arrangement would pay their employees a scheme pension on their retirement....
Lots of providers are carrying out research on environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. How is Royal London’s research different? We specifically wanted to understand where ESG features in employee thinking and...
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association has welcomed commitment in the Conservative party manifesto to conduct a review on whether lower paid workers are being unfairly taxed on some auto-enrolment pensions. This...
Michelle Cracknell has joined PensionBee as a non-executive director of the company. Cracknell has over 30 years in the pensions industry, most recently as the chief executive of The Pensions Advisory Service....
