Pensions

Barnett Waddingham has expanded its Scottish footprint by opening an office in Edinburgh. This comes after the firm opened an office in Glasgow earlier this year.  These moves are part of BW’s...

PMI-funded hospital admissions reached 338,000 in the first half of 2025, the highest first-half total on record and a slight increase on the 336,000 recorded in H1 2024, according to Broadstone. The...

What are the key considerations for schemes integrating private markets into default strategies?  DC investors deserve access to the full investment universe, including opportunities in private markets that have traditionally only been...

More than one in four employers using salary sacrifice currently rely on the associated national insurance savings to fund additional pension contributions or other employee benefits, new research shows.  Employee benefits specialists...

We’ve all seen the news by now: the Pension Schemes Bill has once again changed form, and perhaps for the better. Yesterday’s reading at Parliament sent a clear signal: by amending fiduciary...

Government figures show that 3.3m workers currently using salary sacrifice will be impacted by the changes announced in the recent Budget. These figures were contained in the latest impact assessment, which showed...

Aberdeen Group will replace Stagecoach as the sponsor of its £1.2bn pension scheme, in the first of its kind deal.  Under the terms of the deal, a £50m surplus will be shared...

There is widespread support for Retirement CDC, but pension providers and consultants have warned the proposals carry significant complexity, so the government shouldn't "oversell" this new option as a default retirement solution....

Group life schemes provide employees with a cheap and impactful benefit. In reality, few of us will die while of working age, but for those that do, a substantial lump sum can...

Donald Trump is looking at introducing an Australian-style DC pensions system into the US, a move that would create a sector with colossal levels of assets under management (AUM). Trump told journalists...