Goverment plans to boost DC investment into illiquids could add to scheme costs without delivering benefits to members, according to a leading pension consultant. In its response to the government consultation on...
The regulator’s drive to consolidate the DC sector is making progress. Whether that progress is fast enough for the pensions minister will depend on the decisions made by employers, trustees and pension...
Trustees and pension scheme administrators should start preparing now for new regulations designed to reduce pension fraud. New measures designed to prevent pension fraud will come into effect in June 2022. On...
Anders Lundström, the chief executive of MinPension.se — the Swedish pensions dashboard — has first hand experience of the challenges ahead for the UK, as it develops its own dashboard initiative. Although...
While Sipps allow pension investors with a keen interest in the stock market to make their own investment decisions, they have also permitted significant abuse by some corrupt advisers and unscrupulous Sipp...
Royal London’s Jamie Jenkins and Smart Pension’s Darren Philp are among six new members appointed to the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association's (PLSA) policy board. Formed in 2018 this policy board guides...
A report published in October last year exposed a worrying link between pension schemes and climate change.The research, conducted by Make My Money Matter, an organisation which describes itself as a ‘people-powered...
What are the new VFM regulations, and how will they impact trustees? There has been a lot of talk about ‘value for money’ regulations, but we prefer to think about ‘value for...
One in three DB schemes are using the GMP equalisation programme to improve member options available at retirement, according to new research. Aon’s latest ‘Member Options Survey’ shows that a growing number...
Five years after the British Steel Pension Scheme scandal first erupted and an end to the saga is in sight for thousands of steelworkers wrongly advised to give up valuable guaranteed pensions....
