Interviewing Kenneth Clarke MP it is hard not to feel a sense of history. Anecdotes range from telling Margaret Thatcher that it was time to step down, to predicting terrorist atrocities in UK cities...
A fourfold increase in the number of defined benefit bulk buy outs is expected over the next decade, according to latest industry figures. Mercer points out that by the end of this...
Pension contribution levels will have to increase if individuals are to enjoy the retirement income they currently expect. The programme of increases in auto-enrolment contributions has concluded and for now there are...
On receiving a recent press release bearing the heading ‘22 years of pension savings gone in 24 hours’ my first thought was that they were talking about the impact of the introduction...
Nobody likes it when their bills go up but imagine finding out that your ever-increasing gas bill was also subsidising the cost of heating the 10-bedroom mansion you wish you could live...
Smart Pension is launching a new European-wide workplace pension product, in partnership with Revolut. The collaboration allows companies across Europe to sign up to Revolut’s business account and set up a workplace...
The Pensions Policy Institute has set out a detailed analysis of how the main parties’ manifesto pledges could effect pensions and retirement policy in the UK. This briefing note compares the main...
The burden of pension cost regulation is disproportionately falling on master trusts, according to new analysis. The People’s Pension claims pensions regulation is “unfairly” subsidised by master trusts. It says that the...
Stephen Mann has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA), and will take up this new role from January 6 2020. Mann has held...
The ILC’s What it’s worth: Revisiting the value of financial advice research shows that those receiving this advice between 2001 and 2006 saw their pensions and financial assets boosted by £47,706 in...
