Suffolk Life has bought European Pensions Management (EPM), the Sipp provider that entered insolvency proceedings earlier this summer. The deal includes 5,000 Sipps with a value of around £630m.The acquisition takes Suffolk...
Damian Green, the former immigration minister and the MP for Ashford, has replaced Stephen Crabb as secretary of state for work and pensions. Green is a former business journalist who has worked...
Work and pensions secretary of state Stephen Crabb 'in the best interests' of his family has resigned from the cabinet and is returning to the backbenches. Crabb, a Remain supporter who ran...
The Bank of England has surprised markets by keeping interest rates on hold at 0.5 per cent, adopting a wait-and-see approach until more data on the impact of Brexit is available. Markets...
Standard Life is launching a suite of materials to offer more support to advisers in the DB to DC transfer space. The material includes a questionnaire for advisers to use with clients...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published the terms of reference for a review of how competition is developing in the retirement income market. The Retirement Outcomes Review (ROR) is a...
Former foreign secretary Phillip Hammond has been named Chancellor of the Exchequer, with George Osborne resigning from the Government. Hammond, aged 60, was a prominent campaigner for the UK to remain in...
Aberdeen Fund Managers has become the first asset manager to lift the trading suspension on its property funds, but could see extreme volatility on account of its dilution levy. A dilution levy...
Debate over the role of group risk in giving UK Plc’s productivity a jump-start is moving from the theoretical to the practical. Edmund Tirbutt investigates Discussion on how the group risk market...
Advisers need to do more to get pension savers into investments that perform, says Teresa Hunter Advisers get wrongly blamed for everything: markets going down; markets going up; asking too many questions;...
