Pensions

More than 30 financial advice firms have stopped offering pension transfer advice in just three months because of the cost of professional indemnity cover, according to the Personal Finance Society. The Personal...

The glamour, the glory, the grandeur of the Oscars, the Baftas, the Brits. Industry awards are often compared to them, and with good reason. Comparisons can be drawn not just to the...

Centre-left think tank The Fabian Society and centre-right Bright Blue have joined forces to call for a Turner-style commission to address challenges such as the future of auto-enrolment and pension decumulation. The...

Rumoured Treasury plans to address the tapered annual allowance (TAA) issue by increasing the threshold from £110,000 to £150,000 have been described as ‘naïve’, pointless tinkering and blind to the inequalities in...

UK defined benefit funds have long been allocating to what is broadly termed ‘alternative’ assets. According to the Pension Protection Fund’s Purple Book, UK private sector DB funds invested on average 15 per cent of...

LCP has announced that former pensions minister Sir Steve Webb is to join the firm as a partner. He joins from Royal London where he has been policy director since 2015. At...

Finch Insurance Brokers and Employee Benefits and Verlingue Limited, which was rebranding from ICB Group on 1st December 2019, have merged under the brand name of their French EBC and broking giant parent...

With a couple of decades’ head start on the UK’s auto-enrolment system, Australia’s superannuation market offers numerous insights for British pension professionals. Perhaps most striking is just how huge the market will...

It is widely recognised that one of the biggest challenges in long-term savings is getting customers really engaged with their savings. The FCA green-lighted many highly innovative approaches in their feedback Statement...

Now that most of us have had a well-deserved break since an all-consuming General Election campaign, we can all go about our business in this new year as normal, right? For many...