The pensions industry has welcomed today’s government spending review, which commits additional funds to infrastructure and house-building projects - alongside more money for defence and the NHS. However concerns have also been...
Once again, the pensions industry is braced for a raft of changes for DC schemes. The Pensions Schemes Bill, introduced to Parliament last week, contained a host of measures covering small pots,...
Pension consultants, trustees and legal experts and have welcomed the new Pension Schemes Bill, introduced by the government today. Consultants highlighted the measures to introduce new default retirement solutions as being beneficial...
The government has introduced its “game-changing” Pension Schemes Bill, which sets out the legislative framework for a raft of reforms, including DC multi-employer ‘megafunds’, the new Value for Money framework, small pension...
DC schemes will be allowed to make bulk transfers of assets into better-performing ‘mega funds’ under legislation announced today. The government has outlined details of the Pension Investment Review, designed to create...
Smart Pension has launched a new investment strategy that will see 15 per cent of its main growth fund invested into private markets — exceeding the requirements of the Mansion House Accord. ...
Changes to salary sacrifice are ‘firmly on the government’s agenda’ according to a leading pensions expert, following HMRC research on this issue. HMRC has today published research conducted among employers, looking at...
More than nine out of 10 businesses plan to access surplus funds in closed DB once the government amends legislation to permit this. The research from Brightwell, the company that manages BT’s...
Penfold has reported an significant jump in employers enquiring and switching to salary sacrifice pension options, in the wake of the rise in national insurance contributions. The government raised employer NI rates...
Nest has made its first major investment through IFM Investors, with a €530 million investment (around £450 million) to seed a new infrastructure debt fund. Infrastructure specialist IFM Investors is owned by...
