There’s been a non-stop flow of suggested pension policy reforms for the upcoming Budget. Some are radical suggestions, others more of a tinkering with the small print. Many would be complex to...
Opinion is split among the public as to whether people should be able to use pension funds to help them get onto the housing ladder, with scepticism this would create further problems...
Financial advisers are seeing a significant spike in enquiries about tax-free cash, amid ongoing Budget speculation that this will pension perk will be curtailed. DeVere Group says it has seen a 45...
The rumour mill is hotting up ahead of the Autumn Budget with a lot of concern around what could happen with pensions, especially around tax free cash. But there are also...
The Department of Work & Pensions has published its consultation document on retirement-only CDC, setting out how these proposed new pension arrangements might work in practice. It is seeking views from trustees,...
One in six UK businesses could face insolvency if the government raises employer auto-enrolment pension contributions, according to research from Barnett Waddingham. Such a move could also lead to further disruption in...
Pension providers have invested £1.6bn in unlisted equities in the two years since the Mansion House Compact. This remains less than 1 per cent of DC assets. Under the terms of this...
A high-level delegation of Australian pension fund leaders will meet with the UK government, regulators, civil servants and UK pension representatives later this month to discuss long-term funding opportunities in the UK. ...
Up to 2m deferred pension pots could be merged into single account if five major AE providers become ‘default’ consolidators under current government proposals. These figures are part of the Pensions Data...
Whenever I start writing about what the industry calls ‘the advice/guidance boundary’, I remind myself of when I was editor of Moneywise magazine back in 2015. A reader, Mark, took us up...
