Pensions

Spence & Partners director Hugh Nolan has been elected the new president of the Society of Pension Professionals. Nolan’s presidency takes effect from 1 June 2016, succeeding Duncan Buchanan, a partner in...

Scottish Widows is bulk switching its workplace pension customers into a pension freedoms-friendly default fund, away from lifestyle defaults targeting annuity purchase. The provider will soon write to advisers of schemes with...

Tom Gaynor, MetLife Resilience training should play a major role in helping organisations to support employees and to boost productivity says MetLife Colleagues not doing their jobs properly is the major cause...

Self-employed workers should be nudged into retirement saving by increasing their NI contributions and then allowing them to divert that increase into a private pension plan says Royal London. Proposals published by...

Mercer is appointing former Standard Life director Peter Kane as a principal in its Glasgow office. Kane will focus on growing Mercer’s retirement business in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Kane is a...

NICs relief on employer contributions should be stopped saving up to £10.8bn a year, while abolishing tax relief would save the Government £14bn a year says CPS fellow Michael Johnson. Johnson’s proposals...

Employees should be given the freedom to choose whether their auto-enrolment contributions go into their occupational pension, a Lifetime Isa or a new Workplace Isa, under radical proposals outlined by Centre for...

The average age of a UK worker is now over 41 and the 50-plus cohort will become the largest in the workforce in the next decade, but the rise is not keeping...

The Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) is to lobby the Government for health insurance to be exempt from Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) following two increases in the tax in less...

Swindon Town FC has been fined more than £22,000 for automatic enrolment failures, TPR has confirmed. Swindon Town Football Company Limited (STFC) received fines from The Pensions Regulator worth a total of...