Dr Chris Sier, Stonefish Consulting Fund managers could be obliged to follow an industry standard for reporting costs and charges that goes beyond the FCA's proposed transaction cost criteria. Speaking at the...
The number of people seeking professional advice before entering the at-retirement market is in decline post freedom and choice, according to figures from the Pensions Policy Institute. By Gill Wadsworth Pension Policy...
Around 800,000 people will be saving through the Lifetime Isa by 2020/21, and the new vehicle’s impact on pension saving will be negligible says the Government. Publishing the impact assessment for the...
An overall funding level of 133 per cent and aggregate surplus of £358bn mean UK defined benefit pension funds probably have more than enough money to pay all their pensions due, according...
Isas will replace pensions as the core product for retirement saving in the future, even though tax-relieved pensions would be a better model, a poll of intermediaries at the Corporate Adviser summit...
We are not here to advise: you are! We are here to do what we are asked, whenever we can, and to make your life as simple as possible. So in the...
Proposals to allow the National Employment Savings Trust to enter the drawdown market with a low-cost option have raised concerns amongst corporate advisers. By Gill Wadsworth. In a poll of delegates at...
Fears of a defined benefit pension scheme funding crisis are nonsensical and hysterical, the Pensions Regulator has said. By Gill Wadsworth Speaking at the Corporate Adviser Summit executive director for regulatory policy...
Master trusts feeling the force of tough new regulation are already exiting the market, says The Pensions Regulator, and a number of providers have indicated they would pay to take them on....
A 57-year-old investor in Legal & General’s Multi-Asset Fund should expect to lose 2.1 per cent of their fund by the time they are 65, figures from the provider’s modeller show. L&G’s...
