The DWP has launched a consultation paper on occupational pensions that will consider cuts to inflation proofing, how final salary schemes are valued and what investment strategies they follow and greater responsibilities...
Willis Towers Watson has launched an institutional asset management marketplace designed to cut intermediary cost leakage out of the investment process. Called The Asset Management Exchange (AMX), the marketplace consists of a...
A £30 per employee flat rate reduction in National Insurance could see a further 1.5m UK workers covered by group income protection and save the Government £220m over 5 years, says the...
Breaking down silos within providers is key to solving the UK's long-term saving problem says Bravura Solutions retirement expert Natanje Holt The pensions industry has undergone some of the most profound changes...
When it comes to pension funding, it seems the glass is very much half empty. These days you are never too far from the words ‘soaring DB pension scheme deficits’, yet few...
Wealth Wizards has launched a new app for its Pension Wizard advice offering to enable employees to engage with their workplace pension through their smartphone. Wealth Wizards chief executive Andrew Firth and...
A significant gap in quality of auto-enrolment master trust investment exists with those aimed at smaller employers almost exclusively in passive equities, research from the DC Investment Forum has found. A report...
The Treasury’s plan to introduce a money purchase annual allowance of £4,000 has been accused of penalising members of trust-based schemes and damaging pension freedoms’ ability to help older workers adapt to...
Ruston Smith, trustee director at Peoples’ Pension, Jamie Jenkins, head of pensions strategy at Standard Life and Chris Curry, director of the Pensions Policy Institute have been named as the three chairs...
Actual and perceived costs are the main barriers to employers offering group income protection (GIP), with awareness of the product and incentives key to increasing coverage, research from Group Risk Development has...
