Echoing Government data showing the biggest upswing in participation in auto-enrolment was amongst young savers, Scottish Widows’ 14th Retirement Report, which focuses on adequacy, found 39 per cent of UK workers aged...
The Environmental Audit Committee’s findings from its green finance enquiry, which found that pension scheme trustees’ fiduciary duty is often misinterpreted as a duty to maximise short-term returns, has also criticised the FCA’s reluctance...
Mercer says the FTSE350 pension gap fell by £16bn in May to £34bn on an accounting basis, continuing the significant reductions achieved over the last two years. The gap stood at £72bn...
But the DWP’s annual report on employee participation in workplace pensions found that in 2017, 73 per cent of eligible employees had saved into a workplace pension in at least three of the...
Focus Oxford has seven registered individuals and been in existence for 27 years, offering advice to individuals and corporates across pensions, investments, mortgages and life assurance. PSA says the deal will give...
Lesley Titcomb, chief executive of The Pension Regulator, who has been targeted with criticism by MPs over the regulator’s handling of BHS and Carillion, is to step down, Titcomb will step down...
Called HUB Pension Solutions, the new business delivers offers a digital platform that enables financial advisers providing advice to support scheme transfer exercises to generate transfer value analysis for individual scheme members...
The circular set out plans for SLA and Phoenix to work together to maintain and develop workplace propositions under the Standard Life brand. Phoenix will maintain the Stanplan master trust. It also...
FOS’s annual report shows there were 2,051 Sipp complaints in the year 2017/18, up from 1,493 in the previous year. Personal pension plan complaints by contrast fell 38 per cent, down from...
Next month the Department for Work and Pensions will outline tentative plans on the best way for UK pension schemes to consider “social impact” factors when making investment decisions. The publication –...
