Pensions

The Chancellor confirmed in today’s budget that he is raising the pension taper threshold to £200,000. It has previously been suggested that this threshold would be raised in order to ensure doctors...

Smarterly, the workplace savings fintech, has appointed Troy Clutterbuck as managing director. He was previously CFO and then CEO at Now:Pensions and prior to this was CFO at JLT Employee Benefits where...

Nest has updated its investment strategy for members aged 60 and over, offering a new retirement fund for those looking to keep their money invested beyond retirement.  This ‘guided retirement fund’ is...

Smart Pension has acquired Welplan Pensions Master Trust. Welplan currently provides pensions for around 1,800 employers and has 55,000 individual members in its master trusts, with aggregate funds of around £200m. However last...

Aon is set to buy Willis Towers Watson for $30bn, in a move that will create an $80bn consultancy giant. The deal values Aon at $50bn and Willis Towers Watson at $30bn....

The gender ‘pensions gap’ is significantly worse than the gender pay gap, and the problems should be addressed in this week’s Budget. Leading pension campaigner Ros Altmann claims women are losing out...

More than half of employers say their staff want them to develop clear policies on sustainability and the environment, according to a new benefits survey. This has increased sharply over the past...

The income gap for pensioners has almost doubled over the past 10 years, with those in  the richest households seeing their private pension income grow at a far faster rate.  New figures...

Corporate Adviser editor John Greenwood was grilled by a panel of MPs over concerns pension freedoms could lead to massive leakage of tax as individuals flush salary through pensions, avoiding huge levels...

Guy Opperman MP, the minister for pensions and financial inclusion, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at the Corporate Adviser Master Trust & GPP Conference in London later this month. Opperman...