Pensions

Figures show 6.3m employees are still without a workplace pension, despite the fact that the proportion of workers saving for retirement has hit an all-time high. Latest figures from the Office of...

Leading auto-enrolment providers are calling for urgent reform of the mechanism for funding regulation of occupational pensions. The Department of Work and Pensions has just announced a 10 per cent increase to...

Hard-pressed staff having to make complicated decisions, fears of a mass exodus of senior workers, and a government  scrambling to react. No, I’m not talking about the NHS taper debacle – which...

The Pensions Regulator has published a consultation on its proposals to revise the defined benefit funding code.  The first stage of this consultation is seeking views on both the new 'twin track'...

Pension deficits among FTSE350 companies have increased significantly over the past month, due to market volatility. Mercer's latest Pensions Risk Survey shows the accounting deficit of the DB schemes from the 350...

Janus Henderson Investors has appointed David Whitehair as its new director of institutional business, defined contribution, with a view to developing the company’s DC proposition. In this role Whitehair will provide strategic...

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...