Investment

The Government has launched a consultation into the net pay anomaly, following a critical report by the Public Affairs Committee earlier this week on pensions tax relief administration.  As part of this...

The Pension Schemes Bill has been approved in the House of Lords and will be taken through the House of Commons later this year.  There are a number of proposals in this...

The majority of advisers are concerned that ‘virtual’ meetings and a lack of face-to-face contact is becoming a barrier to developing new client relationships.  The use of video conferencing has surged since...

The Public Accounts Committee has called for a review of pension tax relief, to ensure it is effective and providing value for money. This is part of a wider review into tax...

Pension savers in defined benefit schemes could lose up to 20 per cent of their income, if government reforms to the way inflation is calculated go ahead.  This stark warning comes from...

Mattioli Woods has helped clients recover almost £10m of funds that had been lost to Stadia Trustees.  The wealth manager and employee benefits adviser had been working with the Financial Services Compensation...

The time taken to transfer pensions during the coronavirus lockdown only increased marginally, despite the significant disruption to usual business operations.  Data collated by Origo show that during the second quarter of...

More than a third of FTSE250 companies will offer master trusts as their main pension vehicle within the next two years, according to a new report. Willis Towers Watson's annual DC pension...

Australian asset manager, Macquarie Investment Management, is launching into the UK workplace pensions market with its fee-free True Index strategy.  This strategy has been available to Australian DC schemes for 20 years....

Fraudsters have raked in around £4m in by ‘cloning’ existing investment products, and persuading investors to buy them. The Investment Association has seen 300 incidences of this fraud to date. It warned...