Life events such as redundancy, job moves or retirement will drive engagement with pension dashboards, according to research from WTW. Its survey of trustees and pension scheme managers found that almost half...
Pension communications is often not giving members the confidence to plan for retirement, according to research from agency Like Minds, part of Independent Governance Group. Like Minds' No Member Left Behind report,...
Financial advisers recognise the importance of scale as the workplace pensions market consolidates, but providers will need to do more to demonstrate how it translates into better outcomes for members, according to...
Regulations to enable unconnected multi-employer schemes to join a collective defined contribution scheme have come into affect as of 31 July, described as a ‘landmark’ development by a former pensions minister. This...
The number of people making taxable pension withdrawals continued to rise to last year according to HMRC data. These figures show that taxable flexible pension withdrawals reached a record level of £22.4bn...
Annuity rates have reached an eighteen-year high of 7.75 per cent according to the Standard Life Annuity Rate Tracker. Rates for a healthy 65-year-old rose 1.17 per cent between April and July...
The number of employees savings into workplace pensions has continued to increase, according to the latest government statistics. Figures from the Department of Work & Pensions show that 22.6m eligible employees contributed...
Workplace pensions remained a significant driver of growth at the Lloyds Banking Group's insurance, pensions and investments business, with the Scottish Widows app serving more than one million users after 79 per...
Current housing benefit rules are discouraging private pension saving among older renters, according to new research from the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI). Their latest report looking at the intersection of pension saving...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published its updated pensions roadmap earlier this month. The consolidation timeline is clear. What is also visible, for anyone looking closely at the detail, is...
