The voluntary Simpler Annual Statement has been developed collaboratively by Ruston Smith, Co-Chair of the DWP’s 2017 Automatic Enrolment Review Advisory Board and Chair of the Tesco Pension Fund, Vincent Franklin and...
Speaking at the PLSA annual conference today, Opperman will say the 100-day transfers are “outdated” in the modern digital age. He has backed the Transfers and Re-Registrations Industry Group (TRIG) framework to...
Suggest a potentially disastrous outcome and follow it up with an alternative that would previously have been highly unpopular, but is then greeted with massive relief. It’s a strategy that has become a standard part of...
Global mobility and emigration are on the rise as an increasing number of individuals choose to retire or spend part, or most, of their working life overseas. These individuals may already be living outside the UK...
It is estimated there are 1.6m lost pension pots, with a total value of almost £20bn, according to new industry research. This research was carried out by the Association of British Insurers...
Pensioners will receive an above average increase to the state pension in April. This follows the announcement by the Office of National Statistics that inflation (as measured by the Consumer Price Index)...
This is the first acquisition for ITM since it completed a management buyout in May this year. Faraday Tracing Bureau offers specialist tracing services for pension providers, schemes and third party administrators...
The rise of the master trust seems unstoppable. Auto-enrolment has brought 10 million new savers into these giant schemes, while pressure from the Pensions Regulator and employer demand has seen many own-trust...
The debate over whether trust or contract pension arrangements are superior is decades old. Yet with such a high level of regulatory change, product development and scale on the master trust side, the answer to the question...
Nearly two out of five (37 per cent) pension schemes are now in surplus against their funding target, according to Mercer’s 2018 valuation survey. This is an increase on the 2015 survey,...
