Pensions

The Pension Policy Institute research paper on the sustainability of master trusts, made me ask two questions which I do not see addressed in the report. What about the customer? And why...

Royal London is bidding to take over fellow mutual financial services provider LV= in a deal estimated to be worth in excess af £500m, according to media reports. The tie-up would create...

We’ve often been led to believe that pension scheme members are only interested in the return on their investment, not about how their money is invested. On the contrary, recent survey data...

SPONSORED CONTENT What impact will the Covid-19 epidemic have on growth in the master trust sector? Master trusts were already growing fast. We expect the financial pressure on UK PLC caused by...

The new rules, including the ban on contingent charging, in FCA Policy Statement 20/6, come into effect next month and we are already starting to see advisers change their processes and pricing....

Hargreaves Lansdown has appointment three new members to its independent governance committee (IGC), following the planned departure of three members and the appointment of Richard Butcher as Chair earlier this year. Announcing...

‘Nudge’ tactics could boost the pensions of younger savers by up to £142,000, according to new research.  Scottish Widows and the Behavioural Insights Team, a leading behavioural science organisation, researched the key...

I’m sorry to announce that I’ve been made unemployed. Not from my day job, thank Christ, at least not yet, but from my role as a trustee on the Telegraph’s staff pension...

Market volatility since the outbreak of the global pandemic triggered wild variations in the value of defined contribution pension plans. The so-called global indicator of “fear” among investors - the CBOE VIX Index...

The Department of Work & Pension has set up a taskforce to address the issue of small pension pots that are proliferating within workplace pensions. The move has been welcomed by the...