Richard Smith: Labour’s dashboards origin story
The Government understands consumers’ need to see all their pensions together on apps on their phones - what we now call pensions dashboards. But which political party originally had the idea to...
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Mistry-Kandola steps down from Cloud8 following acquisition
Dipa Mistry-Kandola has stepped down from her role as CEO of Cloud8, the employee benefits technology platform acquired by Benefex last October. Cloud8 is a white-labelled software as-a-service provider that was founded...
Survey reveals how women miss out on pension on divorce
Women who divorce are missing out on tens of thousands of pensions assets because their legal settlement ignores retirement savings, research from Stowe Family Law has shown. A survey of 400 women...
LCP forecasts new entrants in buy-in market
Two new entrants are expected to enter the UK buy-in market in 2024 — according to pension consultants LCP. Increased activity in this area, which has seen a record volume of buy-in...
Dashed hopes for commercial dashboards
The pension minister Emma Reynolds used her speech to the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association conference in Liverpool in mid-October to confirm her “steadfast commitment” to the Pension Dashboards project. The pensions...
Shipra Gupta: Why engagement and action are the key to responsible investment
At Scottish Widows, we are proud of our signatory status to the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) 2020 Stewardship Code. Our approach supports our climate action plan designed within the Paris Aligned Investment...
Analysis: Pensions for a diverse customer base
The huge expansion of pensions under auto-enrolment has created a far more diverse membership base — and regulation is only starting to catch up. Describing the shift, Aviva head of savings and...
Richard Parkin: Navigating a perfect storm
Retirement income advice has always been one of the most challenging areas of financial planning given the uncertainty around client needs, market returns and even how long a client might live. Despite...
Simon Lewis: Bridging the ethnicity gap in pensions
October’s Black History Month served as a timely reminder to reflect on the complex relationship between ethnicity and pensions. While it’s heartening to see increased focus and discussion on this issue, there’s...
Nigel Cayless: Are employer attitudes to DB surpluses changing?
Over the past few years we have seen unprecedented improvements in the funding levels of DB pension schemes. This has resulted in more DB schemes being in surplus and, as a result,...
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