The UK retirement sector plays a vital role in helping employees to secure their financial future. Due to the sector’s expansion and increasing regulatory oversight, technical debt has become an obstacle to...
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...
The Pensions Administration Standards Association (Pasa) will appoint David Fairs as chair and Kim Gubler as president of the body. The two will formally be appointed at Pasa’s annual conference on 24...
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...
It’s clear more needs to be done to support the upcoming generation of retirees given the problems of smaller multiple pension pots, barriers to advice, limited guidance and a far greater proportion...
Barnett Waddingham (BW) has opened a new office in Manchester’s Arkwright House, reinforcing its commitment to clients in the North West and continuing its UK growth. This brings BW to ten locations,...
UK pension assets declined in value over the past year, the only major pension market to do so, according to the Thinking Ahead Institute’s latest Global Pension Assets Study. The UK remains the...
