Pensions

The challenge our industry faces is not only getting people to save more money for retirement but empowering them to make better decisions with it, particularly when they begin turning their pension...

The youth employment crisis that Britain now faces has forced all of us to rethink what we thought we knew. Take pensions. The financial press - and financial services industry - has...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has criticised pension firms for the “poor value”  offered on some legacy products, and urged them to do more for savers in these plans. The FCA said...

Almost half of UK adults have never discussed retirement with their family, despite widespread concerns about their financial future, according to new research from Moneybox. This survey showed the problem remained acute,...

Three in  five retirees who withdrew tax-free cash ahead of last year's Budget say they regret it, according to new research. There was a significant surge in people accessing their pension plans...

Aon has appointed Laura Jackson to join the trustee board for its Aon MasterTrust. Jackson currently works as a consultant, with a focus on employee health and wellbeing. She previously spent over...

Independent professional trustees are increasingly looking to advisers for support on bulk annuity transactions, scheme run-on and pensions regulation, according to new research from First Actuarial. The consultancy's inaugural survey of 65...

For a long time, the workplace pensions market has tended to place providers into neat categories. There were the traditional insurers, the consultant adviser-led master trusts, the AE providers, and the challenger...

Providers must now focus on operational readiness, data quality and service resilience ahead of the pensions dashboard rollout, according to insurtech company Lumera. The MoneyHelper Pensions Dashboard and wider private provider ecosystem...

Specialist pension insurer Rothesay has launched a new bespoke insurance solutions for DB schemes with assets of between £10m and £100m. The launch comes as demand for de-risking solutions from smaller schemes...