Pensions

Aviva has seen a 50 per cent increase in enquiries from unbundled workplace pension schemes considering moving to a bundled provider. The provider says that unbundled to bundled enquiries are up by...

A report by Thomsons has found that 70 per cent of organisations surveyed have upskilled existing HR team members to develop people analytics teams, while 23 per cent have hired in external...

The FCA has today fined Standard Life Assurance Limited (SLAL) £30,792,500 for failures related to non-advised sales of annuities that saw a fifth of call handlers more than double their pay through...

The complexity of understanding the boundary between advice and guidance is emerging as one of the key themes of the FCA’s review of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) and the Financial Advice...

Transfer volumes through the Origo Transfer Service increased by 20 per cent in the year to 30 June 2019, to over 680,000, while the time taken to execute transfers fell from an...

Three quarters of employers want to see the removal of the £10,000 earnings trigger, which excludes millions of low paid and part-time workers, a majority of which are women, from auto-enrolment, according...

The Pensions Regulator has launched a new online tool, designed to help employers re-enrol their staff into a workplace pension more quickly. This launch comes as thousands of small and micro employers...

The Government has confirmed it will review all public sector pension schemes after a Supreme Court ruling that changes made to the firefighter’s pension in 2015 were discriminatory to younger workers.  Government...

Nick Burns has been named CEO of Gallagher’s Employee Benefits Consulting Division, UK, replacing Tim Johnson who stepped down earlier this year. Burns has held numerous roles across the corporate intermediary sector,...

Aegon is critical of FCA plans to extend the role of IGCs in relation to the new investment pathways. The pension provider says it does not think IGCs should have an “executive” role...