Politics

full of dreams and a head full of hope began writing about pensions. The pensions press was abuzz with something called “automatic enrolment”, which was due to start in October 2012 -...

Wages continued to drop across the UK in the first quarter of this year, according to the latest ONS figures. However, many pay experts claim this may be relatively short-lived effect with...

Goverment plans to boost DC investment into illiquids could add to scheme costs without delivering benefits to members, according to a leading pension consultant.  In its response to the government consultation on...

The regulator’s drive to consolidate the DC sector is making progress. Whether that progress is fast enough for the pensions minister will depend on the decisions made by employers, trustees and pension...

Anders Lundström, the chief executive of MinPension.se — the Swedish pensions dashboard — has first hand experience of the challenges ahead for the UK, as it develops its own dashboard initiative.  Although...

Five years after the British Steel Pension Scheme scandal first erupted and an end to the saga is in sight for thousands of steelworkers wrongly advised to give up valuable guaranteed pensions....

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought into the spotlight the ‘Social’ category of ESG and in particular consumers’ preferences and impact investing.  The West’s response to the events in the Ukraine...

Despite the state pension rising by 3.1 per cent today, pension experts warn that the value of this benefit will decline in real terms with inflation currently rising at twice this rate....

The Department of Work & Pensions have revealed it is working to correct a series of state pension errors, the majority of which it has not publicy revealed before. The problems came...

The union representing UK firefighters is preparing further legal action after the government has failed to act on a previous Court of Appeal ruling.  In December 2018 the Court of Appeal ruled...