Pensions

The Pensions Regulator has told trustees to look out for bias and ulterior motives of their investment advisers and other stakeholders they deal with in new guidance published today. The guidance says...

Schroders has launched a set of principles for encouraging food and drink companies to reduce the sugar content in their products. The framework, published jointly with Rathbone Greenbank, has been endorsed by...

A high level of flu-related deaths have pushed life expectancy projections into reverse, potentially wiping £28bn off defined benefit pension scheme deficits says Mercer. The latest Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) figures indicate...

To hedge or not to hedge? Predictions of political and economic volatility as the Government triggers Article 50 means currency markets are entering choppy waters. John Greenwood finds pension advisers and providers...

The projected life expectancy of 25-year-olds has fallen for the second consecutive year, with males expected to live 18 months less long than projected two years ago and females expected to die...

Delivering financial advice, improving greater personalisation of insurance underwriting, absorbing mountains of expert research - the march of artificial intelligence (AI) seems unstoppable. IBM director, Watson financial services Europe, David Robson tells...

Longevity is falling and people are dying younger than expected, raising questions for Government plans to increase state pension age, says Quantum Advisory. The actuarial firms points to figures from the Continuous...

Drawdown customers will be able to make withdrawals from their pensions and change their income levels themselves through new technology to be launched by Delta Financial Systems in Q4 of this year....

Pension savers should be automatically nudged into low-cost default income drawdown plans at age 55, allowing withdrawals of between 4 and 6 per cent a year, CPS fellow Michael Johnson has proposed....

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