Politics

For a decade or more, the UK financial services industry has been peddling the myth that our pension pots will see us through our later years if only we would save a...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has issued a consultation to understand how occupational pension scheme trustees fulfil their duty to assess social factors in their stewardship activities, following ministerial concerns...

Pensions experts are calling for the government to rethink plans for the triple lock, after the latest Office of National Statistics report shows annual earnings growth of around 4.8 per cent. There...

The US faces structural, legal and political challenges if it wants its workplace pensions to embrace the ESG strategies that are starting to become more widely adopted in the UK and Europe....

The TUC is calling for the government to delay raising the state pension on the back of new ONS figures showing the widening life expectancy gap between wealthier and more deprived areas....

There has been significant improvement towards gender diversity on the board of financial companies despite the Covid pandemic, with seven out of 10 companies on track, or meeting targets on this issue.  This...

The Department of Work and Pensions has announced that it will shortly begin consulting on plans to introduce simpler annual benefit statements for workplace pensions. This announcement by the pensions minister Guy...

The industry response to the publication of the eagerly anticipated report from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) about how to tackle the small pots problem only served to underline what...

The government will look to create more flexibility for pension schemes to invest in illiquid and infrastructure assets, as part of a Budget pledge to help rebuild a 'greener' economy after the...

The government is due to refund £3bn to women who have been underpaid state pensions according to the latest documents released by the Office of Budget Responsibility. The figures are contained in...