Pensions

Publishing the results of its consultation - Workplace pensions automatic enrolment: simplifying the process and reducing burdens on employers – the DWP has also confirmed that employers no longer need to enrol...

Populus research of 100 HR directors of companies with more than 500 employees found 63 per cent expect staff to look to their employer for retirement guidance, with 62 per cent predicting...

Speaking at a seminar in London this week, Barnett Waddingham partner Damian Stancombe warned employers could move towards offering nothing more than the auto-enrolment minimum, as has proved the case in Australia,...

Labour leader Ed Miliband will unveil plans for a drawdown charge cap in a speech to be delivered today. Labour first floated the plan in November. The plan is unveiled on the...

As the industry braces itself for the biggest reforms anyone can remember, advisers and providers are understandably jittery at the potential for systems failures, mistakes and blocked communication channels. John Greenwood reports...

With the freedom and choice reforms coming into force in just a few weeks, industry attitudes and opinions range from bleak pessimism to enthusiastic optimism, while many employers demonstrate stark indifference. So...

The Retirement Range consists of a series of multi-asset ‘World Selection’ portfolios. First launched in 2009, and now sold in more than 20 markets around the world, “World Selection” is  HSBC’s multi-asset...

TPR says it has dropped the plan because of the challenges of setting quality criteria for the inclusion of schemes on the list and its role in monitoring the list. The regulator...

The consultation proposes the FCA’s Conduct of Business Sourcebook (COBS) pension transfer requirements will apply to all pension transfers, meaning pension transfers advice will be required to be carried out, or checked...