Regulation

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...

A joint report by the work and pensions committee and BEIS committee says sponsoring companies are able to call TPR’s bluff and avoid deficit reduction payments because the regulator rarely uses its...

Birmingham-based Crest Healthcare and managing director Sheila Aluko each pleaded guilty to one charge of knowingly or recklessly providing false or misleading information to TPR and two counts of wilfully failing to...

Origo, the not-for-profit fintech, says there has been a 33 per cent increase in registrations for the service, with 2,000 people signing up  in both March and April, as firms get themselves...

A preliminary opinion from the Advocate General of the ECJ in the case of Grenville Hampshire v The Board of the Pension Protection Fund argues that compensation should be set at at...

There are strong forces of change affecting asset management in the UK, some of which are global in nature, others are UK specific. Among these forces, let me start with Brexit. There...

Consultants who advise on workplace pension schemes are facing more scrutiny than at any time in their history. The FCA’s asset management market study may have had the fidicuary management processes of...

The well-publicised problems with advice on transfers from the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) has ben arguably the most high-profile test to date of the pension freedom and choice policy. While sponsor...