Regulations to enable unconnected multi-employer schemes to join a collective defined contribution scheme have come into affect as of 31 July, described as a ‘landmark’ development by a former pensions minister. This...
Aviva is to offer its workplace pension customers access to mortgage guidance and a brokerage service by extending its partnership with Tembo. The insurer has previously offered this on a pilot basis,...
Annuity rates have reached an eighteen-year high of 7.75 per cent according to the Standard Life Annuity Rate Tracker. Rates for a healthy 65-year-old rose 1.17 per cent between April and July...
Workplace pensions remained a significant driver of growth at the Lloyds Banking Group's insurance, pensions and investments business, with the Scottish Widows app serving more than one million users after 79 per...
There has been an uptick in the money flowing into sustainable funds in the US in the second quarter of this year, with the inflows positive for the first time since 2022,...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published its updated pensions roadmap earlier this month. The consolidation timeline is clear. What is also visible, for anyone looking closely at the detail, is...
The UK DC pension market is entering a new phase with the focus moving from participation to outcomes, with pension adequacy remaining a major concern, according to the latest paper from consultancy...
Financial advice company Whistle has acquired Pension Potential from Punter Southall Group, with a view to strengthening its retirement proposition. The acquisition combines Pension Potential's retirement planning technology with Whistle's embedded regulated...
Boosting retirement outcomes and improving the member experience are the opportunities that most excite sponsors and trustees about the collective defined contribution model, according to research by consultancy Lane Clark & Peacock....
Industry feedback overseen by the Society of Pension Professionals has shown that a majority of SPP members would like to see proposed government changes to salary sacrifice be scrapped. From April 2029,...
