Pensions

Given the tragic human consequences it may feel wrong to talk about upsides from the COVID-19 epidemic. We will certainly see a huge financial aftershock, but in the long-term current events have...

The speed with which emergency pension measures have been announced is a testament to the severity of the situation, but also reflects a welcome departure from past measures which have often taken...

AllianceBernstein has appoints Omar Rauf as its new UK retail sales director. In this role Rauf will be responsible for servicing and expanding AB’s relationship with the wholesale market in the UK....

More than 500 companies are expected to delay tackling pension deficits in the wake of the Covid crisis. New analysis by consultants Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) says the total payments now...

Aviva is freezing senior executive pay increases and bonuses as it prioritises dividends to ordinary shareholders. The provider says executive directors and the Aviva leadership team will not receive bonuses for 2020...

Deficits in DB pensions schemes have increased by a further £10bn since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown. Official figures from the Pension Protection Fund show the total deficit of the UK’s...

Increasing numbers of pension schemes are looking to protect against longevity risk with a record numbers of buy-ins, buy-outs and longevity swaps in 2019. New analysis by Hymans Robertson shows these totalled...

DB pension transfers are declining rapidly, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. New data from LCP shows that member interest in transfers is at its lowest level since 2014, before the...

People approaching retirement have far higher levels of anxiety about the financial consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic than younger investors, according to new research. Aegon has launched a new tracker survey to...

Baroness Jeannie Drake, one original architects of auto-enrolment has been appointed to The People’s Pension board of trustees. This is one of two new appointments. The People’s Pension has also appointed consulting...