Pensions

Defined benefit and master trust provider TPT has made two senior appointments to its leadership team as it looks to grow its DC business. Philip Smith has joined the company as the...

The Society of Pension Professionals has appointed Fred Emden as its first chief executive.  The SPP is a trade body, representing companies that advise and provide services to work-based pension schemes and...

KPMG has spun off its pensions advisory practice, which is now being launched as an independent consultancy, known as Isio.  The division was bought out by Isio partners with backing from Exponent...

The Pensions Regulator has made its ambivalence towards smaller single employer  trusts crystal clear. For example, last August it described what it saw as the unacceptable scale of under- performance in its annual...

Now that all pension providers are legally required to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their default fund investment processes will we see less scheme members opting for ethical or...

Up until very recently it is easy to imagine that many people might be wondering why equity markets in Europe and the US had been performing so well. The Chinese economy has...

Widening inequalities in healthy life expectancy mean the majority of Britons will develop disabilities before state pension age that could leave them relying on working age benefits for support, a hard-hitting report...

Rising full withdrawals and unsustainable annual withdrawal rates risk seeing pensioners run out of money in retirement, an Association of British Insurers report has warned. The report says 40 per cent of...

Opt out rates for auto-enrolment remain low, despite last April's increase in contribution rates, according to the latest data published by the Department of Work and Pensions.  Its Automatic Enrolment Evaluation Report...

It is now five years since the introduction of pension freedom rules, but there is still widespread confusion about retirement options, particularly among the 50-plus age group.  One in four savers (26...