Pensions

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...

The leader of Birmingham City Council is calling on the West Midlands Local Government Pension Fund (WMPF) to stop using external investment managers after a Centre for Policy Studies report hit out...

Soaring anxiety over financial wellness is hitting the productivity of UK workers, with concerns over credit card debt, protection against debt and affordability of school fees increasing by more than 50 per...

State pension age could rise to 74 by 2060, when there could be more than a million people over 100 years old, population projections by the Office for Budget Responsibility suggest. The...

Pension investors will be able to withdraw up to £1,500 from their pension pots tax-free to pay for financial advice, the Government has confirmed today. The new Pension Advice Allowance, first announced...