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....
By Jim Grant, Senior Product Insight & Technical Support Analyst Transfers from defined benefit (DB) schemes are a bit of a hot topic just now. In this article we look at a...
The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) brought many benefits to the UK pension industry, but it also created an advice gap, resulting in consumers with the smallest funds struggling to access advice at...
Royal London commissioned Opinium to run our State of the Protection Nation research to find out how people felt about their own protection needs and the industry as a whole. By Ross...
