Regulation

The challenge our industry faces is not only getting people to save more money for retirement but empowering them to make better decisions with it, particularly when they begin turning their pension...

The youth employment crisis that Britain now faces has forced all of us to rethink what we thought we knew. Take pensions. The financial press - and financial services industry - has...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has criticised pension firms for the “poor value”  offered on some legacy products, and urged them to do more for savers in these plans. The FCA said...

More than half the UK’s largest DC default funds now have allocations to private markets, but average allocations are still below 5 per cent. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THE...

As AI evolves faster, the Financial Conduct Authority is re-thinking what it means to be an effective regulator, with greater emphasis on competition, collaboration and system-wide risk awareness, according to a speech...

The DC decumulation landscape is changing rapidly, but not always in ways trustees and providers expect. While policy discussions continue to focus on improving pathways for savers, value for money and governance,...

Critical changes are needed for the newly introduced Value for Money framework to be in any way effective, according to former pensions minister Guy Opperman. In a recently published op-ed, Opperman claimed...

The government should be genuinely congratulated on the 2026 Pension Schemes Act. So much of the Act is very good; and it is a credit to the Labour Ministers that they have...

Aviva will launch its first targeted support services this summer, after gaining regulatory approval from the Financial Conduct Authority. The insurer has said it is planning a phased rollout of targeted support...

The plan to allow group personal pension schemes to transfer in bulk without member consent remains one of the more complex elements of the government’s plans to drive consolidation in workplace pensions....