Pensions

Isio has appointed Vito Faircloth to the newly created role of head of digital solutions. This is the first senior appointment for Isio, which was formerly the pensions advisory business of KPMG...

Pension providers and advisers have reported widespread confusion as to how the Job Retention Scheme will impact firms who use salary sacrifice schemes for pension payments - saying more clarification from the...

Firms are breaking employment law by imposing salary cuts and pension reductions without undertaking a  required 60-day consultation period with employee representative groups. Advisers attending a virtual Corporate Adviser roundtable on the...

Many hundreds of employers have stopped making pension contributions after furloughing staff according to trustees.  Capital Cranfield professional trustee Andrew Cheseldine says some  master trusts they work with  have seen cancellations from...

Employers struggling to meet their auto-enrolment and other workplace pensions obligations can expect a ‘proportionate’ risk-based approach to enforcement says The Pensions Regulator. Issuing a Covid-19 guidance update, TPR says auto-enrolment contributions...

Scottish Widows has appointed former executive director for regulatory policy at The Pensions Regulator Andrew Warwick-Thompson as the new chair of its master trust. Warwick-Thompson takes over from Kim Nash, who steps...

The FCA has confirmed the delay to the implementation of post-retirement investment pathways that could have nudged investors now in secure cash investments into equities and other risky assets. In January the...

Jonathan Reynolds, the former shadow economic secretary to the Treasury, has been named as Shadow Secretary of State for Workplace and Pensions, replacing Margaret Greenwood. Sir Keir Starmer, the new leader of...

The Hymans Robertson Foundation has launched a new hardship fund for charities affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. More than 50 charities already supported by this foundation can apply for additional help via...

Punter Southall Aspire’s chief executive Steve Butler has co-authored a new business book, looking at how firms can support mid-life workers. The book, Midlife Review: A guide to work, wealth and wellbeing is...