Pensions

The Government is set to unveil a crackdown on the abuse of small self-administered schemes (SSASs), when it confirms a ban on pension cold calling in the Autumn Statement on Wednesday. But...

The Chancellor should use his first Autumn Statement to tackle the elderly care crisis by introducing ‘elderly care vouchers’, a new Care Isa and employer care savings plans, says former pension minister...

Graduated increases of NI channelled into pension could be the way to bring the self employed into auto-enrolment, says Aegon. Responding to reports today that pensions minister Richard Harrington wants the self...

Investment consultants are giving high ratings to asset managers that give them gifts and corporate hospitality, research carried out by the regulator has concluded. The FCA’s asset management market study has identified...

Over the last seven years you have probably read countless articles and had endless discussions about when the Federal Reserve (Fed) is next going to hike. The chart below shows the Fed...

The FCA is considering recommending that the investment consultant sector is referred to the Competition and Markets Authority and has recommended that HM Treasury considers bringing the provision of institutional investment advice...

It is not every day that the Government tells the group risk industry that it likes what it does. Nor does it often ask how it can change things so more products...

Automatic enrolment has more than doubled membership of workplace pensions among those not directly targeted by the policy and achieved take-up by 88 per cent of those who are, according to research...

Early access to state pension or a state pension that varied based on socio-economic group would have negative consequences for society, John Cridland has warned. Speaking at Aviva’s auto-enrolment pre-review, independent state...

Half of women are saving adequately for their retirement, but the gender gap is widening as vulnerable self-employed and divorced women fall behind, according to research from Scottish Widows. The research found...