Public opinion is not broadly supportive of government plans to encourage pension schemes to invest in assets, infrastructure or projects to boost the UK economy, preferring a focus on pure investment returns....
Pension providers are calling for the introduction of 'personalised guidance' and demanding a level-playing field between trust- and contract-based in response to the the government’s latest consultation on helping savers understand their...
An anomaly that has excluded more than a million low-paid workers in net-pay arrangements from the tax relief available on relief-at-source schemes is to be rectified, the government has confirmed. Since 2015,...
Four out of 10 people buying drawdown or other decumulation pension products last year did so without seeking financial advice, according to analysis of FCA data. This is the highest proportion of...
20-20 Trustees has appointed Nicola Paul as a trustee director. Paul joins from Gemmels Financial Services. She has more than 30 years’ industry experience — working for a range of trustee and...
By anyone’s standards, automatic enrolment has been an astonishing public policy success, perhaps the outstanding success of the last quarter century. In a decade it has reversed the decline in the number of people saving into a...
Barnett Waddingham went home with a haul of trophies from the Corporate Adviser Awards 2022 ceremony in London last night, scooping gongs in the Firm of the Year, Best Pension Adviser and Best...
The outgoing FCA chairman Charles Randell recently alluded to policymakers’ failure to protect individuals from the risks inherent in pension freedoms, and the lack of policy coordination within the Treasury, in one...
Darren Philp is leaving Smart Pension to set up his own policy, public relations and public affairs company. Philp joined Smart Pension four years ago initially as head of policy before becoming...
SPONSORED COMMENT Even in the most favourable of economic and financial market environments, investing is a precarious activity. Trying to predict future events and combine a mix of investments to suit that...
