Pension freedoms will fuel the buy to let market as over 55s access their pots to acquire residential property, despite Government moves to dampen down the market predicts Retirement Advantage. The annuity...
Four out of five employers believe minimum auto-enrolment contributions should rise, but they are divided over who should pay for it, a survey of 400 employers has found. The survey, conducted online...
Ann Flynn has left Willis Towers Watson to take up the role of head of financial wellbeing at Legal & General. Flynn, who has held senior pensions roles at both Willis Towers...
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has published a guide to help schemes meet tough new EU data protection regulations ahead of next May’s strict compliance deadline. The EU’s General Data...
Former LCP partner Andy Cheseldine has become independent chair of trustees at Smart Pension, taking the role vacated by Claire Altman who becomes head of financial services at the provider. Cheseldine, who...
Pension consultants outside the big three say they are looking forward to working with the CMA to tackle potential conflicts of interest in the investment consulting sector, following the FCA’s referral to...
The FCA has decided to refer the investment consultancy and fiduciary management sector to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and has rejected undertakings in lieu made by Aon, Mercer and Willis...
Robo advice pioneer LV= says DB to DC transfers help drive its pensions assets by 29 per cent in H1 of 2017, up to £654m from £506m in H1 2016. The provider,...
Nest, the state-sponsored workplace pension provider, has outperformed all its major contract-based rivals over the last three years on a risk-adjusted basis, delivering market-leading returns while taking considerably less risk than its...
The financial advice sector is in a period of strong growth, with four out of five advisers seeing their turnover increase in the past 12 months, and the same proportion expecting this...
