Pensions

Scottish Widows is acquiring Zurich’s UK corporate pension business in a deal that sees £15bn of assets and 500,000 customers move to Lloyds Banking Group (LBG). LBG says the transaction will give...

National retirement income targets should be developed to help people understand and benchmark how close they are to their long term savings goals, the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association says. The PLSA...

Investing in training managers to deal with stress in the workplace is the single most effective wellness intervention available to employers, a survey of employee benefits consultants (EBCs) has found. A poll...

Quick wins in the quest for smoother, more efficient processes for DB transfers are there fore the taking says Origo managing director Paul Pettitt Demand for DB pensions transfers has increased exponentially...

Now: Pensions was encouraged to take on independent trustees Dalraida Trustees by The Pensions Regulator because of the failings of its own governance processes, it has emerged. TPR took the unusual step...

Joanne Segars OBE, former chief executive of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, is joining the trustee board of Now: Pensions. Segars will join the trustee board later in the year, replacing...

Scottish Widows has launched a digital service for its workplace pension customers that gives access to valuations, contribution history and details of how their assets are invested. The service also allows them...

More than half of workers in some industries are not being automatically enrolled into a pension because they earn less than the £10,000 threshold for inclusion, a TUC report has found. Describing...

Richard H. Thaler, the American academic who co-developed the ‘nudge’ theory at the heart of auto-enrolment and Save More Tomorrow, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for economics. The Royal Swedish Academy...

Ellipse is extending its group income protection range with the launch of a new sick pay product for employers that do not want an integrated absence management tool. Called Sick Pay, the...