Pensions

The timetable for pension schemes to be ready to feed into the pension dashboard has been published in a call for input from the Pensions Dashboard Programme out today. The Department for...

Mercer has launched a new tool to help pension schemes and other institutional investors assess how well they are integrating ESG considerations in their overall decision making.  Its Responsible Investment Total Evaluation...

FTRC is expanding its proposition with a new information hub dedicated to adviser software. The new site, advisersoftware.com, will roll out 18 specialist practice areas over the coming months. The service brings...

Financial advisers and wealth managers are hugely inconsistent when it comes to assessing risk, and often make “noisy” errors based on irrelevant factors - such as the weather or when they have...

Trustees are optimistic about the progress being made on GMP equalisation with more than half (55 per cent) expecting to be making pensions in payment on an equalised basis by the end...

Flat fees on workplace pensions will be banned for sub £100 pots under a government review that could see a single charge structure become law. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)...

One in four people would increase pension contributions if they understood tax relief better, according to new research. The survey by Royal London found that a significant proportion of people do not...

The UK’s largest companies have ploughed £200bn into their DB schemes since 2007 to avoid a drop in funding levels. However despite this large sum, pension consultants LCP say most of this...

The US-based pension scheme the Service Employees International Union Master Trust has failed in a bid to get State Street to undertake a racial equity audit, but 36.8 per cent of shareholders...

Pension transfers have dropped by almost a quarter since last September with the proportion of transfers with scam red flag warnings increasing to 59 per cent of all cases. XPS's Transfer Watch...