Politics

Almost one in two savers (42 per cent) are worried that their pension funds will fall as a result of Brexit, according to new research. In contrast just 4 per cent of...

The world’s fifth largest pension fund, Dutch-based ABP, increased its fossil fuel investments last year, according to research from environmental activists.  Analysis by four NGOs — including Greenpeace Netherlands and German NGO...

The issue of pension scheme governance has risen up the policy agenda dramatically in recent years driven primarily by the establishment and expansion of auto-enrolment. The extra scrutiny involved has seen both the...

From the start of October 2019, trustees overseeing auto-enrolment defined contribution schemes will be obliged, by law, to give due consideration to a greater number of factors that may impact the performance...

Therese Coffey is the new secretary of state for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), following the resignation by Amber Rudd at the weekend.  Coffey becomes the seventh minister to hold...

The Government has confirmed it will review all public sector pension schemes after a Supreme Court ruling that changes made to the firefighter’s pension in 2015 were discriminatory to younger workers.  Government...

The number of people who opt to defer their state pension has fallen to the lowest level for 20 years, according to new figures from the Department of Work and Pensions. Just...

The House of Lords committee on intergenerational fairness has delivered a series of recommendations, calling for policies to support younger people in the employment and housing markets. This report also called for...

The idea of a Government- sponsored web-based pension planning tool has been around for quite some time. Back in the early noughties Labour’s DWP secretary of state Andrew Smith outlined an online planner,...

The average income received by pensioners fell last year, according to  figures published by the Department of Work and Pensions.  Its retirement income statistics show that the average weekly income for all...