New FCA research shows a significant upswing in the number of people seeking financial advice on retirement planning. According to the 2018 Financial Advice Market Review, 4.5m sought financial advice on pensions...
Mercer has accused the Competition and Markets Authority of using incorrect data and unrepresentative samples in its recent Investment Consultants Market Investigation. This probe look at consultants offering investment and fiduciary management...
Fines issued by The Pensions Regulator have tripled in value over the past 12 months. In total the value of fixed penalty notices was £11.5m during the 2017/18 tax year. This compares...
BlackRock’s Global Insurance Report found that 83 per cent of insurers said ESG factors were becoming increasingly important to their firm, with a particular focus on this issue from European firms. A...
Many smaller pension schemes are failing to demonstrate they provide good value for members according to new research from The Pensions Regulator. In its annual DC survey, the watchdog found that nine...
Publishing its provisional decision report, part of its Investment Consultants Market Investigation today, the CMA says that it had found evidence of an adverse effect on competition (AEC) in the field of fiduciary...
Workchain Ltd owners and directors Phil Tong and Adam Hinkley encouraged five senior staff at the company to get the temporary workers out of the scheme so the company could avoid making...
Lesley Titcomb, chief executive of The Pension Regulator, who has been targeted with criticism by MPs over the regulator’s handling of BHS and Carillion, is to step down, Titcomb will step down...
FOS’s annual report shows there were 2,051 Sipp complaints in the year 2017/18, up from 1,493 in the previous year. Personal pension plan complaints by contrast fell 38 per cent, down from...
Published today, the judgment follows a two-week hearing in January of the substantive issues in the case – the first anti-avoidance case by TPR to be heard in full by the tribunal. The court...
