Politics

UK businesses, particularly SMEs, will be grappling with significant economic challenges next year, as a result of Rachel Reeves' first Budget. Many will see finances under pressure from both the increase to...

The Government has confirmed it will not pay compensation to the 3.6m 'Waspi' women born in the 1950s who claim they were given insufficient warning about increases to their state pension age....

The Chancellor is understood to have delayed the second phase of the pensions review, which was looking at retirement adequacy. The Financial Times reported that Rachel Reeves was concerned this would result...

As the demand for climate-conscious investment strategies intensifies, traditional interpretations of fiduciary duty are coming under scrutiny. Trustees are facing the challenge of balancing long-term financial performance with the urgent need to...

Former pensions minister Guy Opperman is joining Smart as a senior adviser.  This will be an international role, with a focus on Smart’s proprietary retirement technology platform Keystone. Smart says global demand...

In a damning report the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has been labelled  “incompetent at best, dishonest at worst” by MPs from across both Houses of Parliament. The 350-page report accused the UK’s...

Former pensions minister and LCP partner Steve Webb has labelled the recent Budget a catastrophe for auto-enrolment by blocking the next step towards increasing contributions. Webb was speaking at the Corporate Adviser...

Ten years from how will the pensions industry have solved four of the key challenges it currently faces?  Standard Life dabbled in some crystal-ball gazing at Corporate Adviser’s Master Trust and GPP...

Jack Jones, the pensions policy officer at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has questioned whether the regulation of pension consultants and potentially employers mooted by the government last week is practical or necessary. Jones...

Consultants are calling for regulation need to be strengthened on multi-employer CDC schemes, to ensure all members have the same protections, when it comes to safeguarding pension benefits.  Responding to the Department...