The Government is pressing ahead with the retrospective cut in the Money Purchase Annual Allowance (MPAA) from £10,000 to £4,000, today’s publication of the Finance Bill has confirmed. The £4,000 MPAA will...
Schroders is launching a new equity fund for DC pension schemes that aims to outperform passives with a multi-factor approach designed to minimise the chance of underperforming them. The Global Multi-Factor Equity...
Staffcare founder Phil Hollingdale is partnering with actuary Ben Pollard and Unum to launch a start-up savings and investments platform to be distributed through the workplace. Pollard, left and Hollingdale Unum is...
KPMG’s 2015 UK Fiduciary Management Market Study shaped FCA thinking on its investigation of investment consultants. Its author, KPMG head of fiduciary management, investment advisory Anthony Webb spells out what the FCA’s...
EBCs face an unprecedented level of upheaval if the FCA goes ahead and refers investment consultants to the CMA and recommends regulation of pension consultants. John Greenwood examines where a referral could...
Scam pension websites are using The Pensions Regulator’s Project Bloom anti-scam materials to con consumers into unlocking their pensions, TPR has confirmed. TPR says it has received referrals relating to a number...
Former Willis Towers Watson head of DC and communications Nico Aspinall has been named chief investment officer of B&CE, provider of The People’s Pension. Aspinall, who was formerly responsible for the investment...
The workplace pensions sector should be given exemptions from tough new data protection rules to enable providers and trustees to continue to run engagement programmes designed to improve retirement outcomes says Scottish...
By Steve Webb, Director of Policy and External Communications Our latest policy paper reveals what the fall in the savings ratio does (and doesn’t) mean In June 2017, the Office for National...
By Jamie Clark, Business Development Manager The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has taken the step of naming and shaming employers that have been served County Court Judgments (CCJs) for non-payment of auto-enrolment fines....
