Pensions

There has been a marked slowdown in the number of DB schemes awarding discretionary pension increases according to a survey by Aon.  In a survey of over 200 schemes the firm found...

Retire the Gap, a new campaign described as a ‘social experiment’, is investigating how people make decisions about their retirement and seeks to uncover behavioural patterns and social influences often missed by...

The government’s decision to revive the Pensions Commission is welcome, but a better idea would have been to introduce a financial resilience review that examines the entirety of the financial challenges that...

The Government has revived the ‘landmark’ Pensions Commission — the body responsible for creating auto-enrolment for pensions in the workplace.  This relaunched commission will address issues of retirement adequacy. Advisers are positive...

FNZ, the global wealth management platform, has launched 'Advisor AI', a generative AI tool built into its platform to help advisers improve productivity, deliver more personalised advice and serve clients more efficiently....

The private equity market is expected to quadruple in size over the next decade, according to new research from Schroders Capital. The research says this will be the result of structural growth...

Scottish Widows has rolled out the latest series of upgrades to its platform, part of a three-year project which will see it invest £180m into enhanced functionality and service for its advisers. The...

In the last year £81.5m was paid out to more than 2,000 members across 58 pension schemes who were defrauded by scammers. The figures were released by The Pensions Regulator (TPR), the...

DC pension schemes could expect to see an additional 2 to 5 per cent return a year by investing in private credit strategies, according to a new paper from a US-based research...

Many retirees struggle with the emotional side of spending their savings, with 26 per cent feeling anxiety, 18 per cent fear and 15 per cent guilt, according to Aegon. According to the...