Pensions

The government has launched a consultation on new rules designed to make it easier for well-funded DB schemes to release surplus funds to sponsoring employers and members. The Department for Work and...

XPS Group has been appointed to provide full administration services to the Church of Scotland Pension Schemes. This is the first time the schemes has moved to an outsourced administration model. XPS...

Insurance-funded private hospital admissions reached a record 670,000 in 2025, marking the fourth consecutive annual high despite NHS waiting lists falling to their lowest level in almost three years, according to Broadstone....

Pensions could be switched more rapidly  under government proposals to amend the conditions for transfer regulations.  The Department of Work and Pensions is consulting on a range of changes, which include removing...

Cartwright Pension Trusts has appointed Scott Wright to the role of senior pensions administrator. Wright will be based in the Chelmsford office of the firm, which specialists in defined benefit and hybrid...

The Department for Work and Pensions has launched a consultation which sets out targeted measures to address the risk of fraud within Small Self-Administered Schemes as part of a wider government programme...

Intense competition between insurers is helping the UK’s defined benefit pension schemes achieve record buy-in pricing, according to research by consultancy Lane Clark & Peacock. There was an annual record of 367...

Financial wellbeing specialists Wealth at Work has launched a retirement guidance service designed to help pension schemes, trustees, and employers support members approaching retirement. The move by WaW comes following the passing...

Union members have called for the Government to impose financial penalties on Capita and award compensation to Civil Service Pension Scheme members, after its “disastrous performance” and “unacceptable” delays to payments.  The...

Mattioli Woods will retire the Kingswood Group brand following the merger of the two firms in October last year.  The combined employee benefits and wealth management group, which has £25bn in assets...