Politics

The workplace pensions market has now had a month to fully digest the implications of the Mansion House Accord. The Accord doubles the targeted private markets allocation compared with the Mansion House...

The Society of Pension Professional has called for the Pensions Commission to set out a clear timetable for increasing auto-enrolment contributions to give certainty to both employers and employees. Alongside this framework,...

The government’s decision to revive the Pensions Commission is welcome, but a better idea would have been to introduce a financial resilience review that examines the entirety of the financial challenges that...

The Government has launched a call for evidence ahead of its forthcoming review of the state pension age (SPA).  The Department of Work & Pensions has appointed Dr Suzy Morrissey to lead...

Rachel Reeves’ growth-at-all-costs juggernaut rumbles on and now it’s the turn of the Pensions Regulator to jump – or rather, be forced – onto the bandwagon. In a speech called “Pension regulation...

With the right approach from trustees, Collective Defined Contribution has the potential to address long standing challenges around adequacy and sustainability in retirement provision, significantly improving member outcomes. CDC is an exciting prospect,...

Across the UK pensions landscape, there’s a growing sense of unease. Trustees and advisers are being asked to make investments that benefit not just their members but the UK economy more broadly....

The Government has closed its consultation on changes designed to reduce the gender pension gap on the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) in England and Wales.  These “access and fairness” changes have...

Pension tax relief cost the Government £78.2bn last year, according to new HMRC statistics — causing speculation that the Chancellor may look to restrict this in the next Budget. This is the...

The number of employees saving into a workplace pension increased last year according to new government figures, with the frozen earnings trigger bringing more workers into the AE net. However, the data...