UK retirees could safely withdraw up to 5.7 per cent from their pension funds at retirement, provided they can afford to take a more flexible approach to income during period of market...
Bupa has launched a new cash plan product with YuLife, with a view to improving employee wellbeing while reducing absence in the workplace. This new option will run alongside Bupa’s existing cash...
Fewer than one in five defined contribution workplace pension members understand key retirement topics, including pension consolidation, retirement options and how their savings are invested. This is according to a survey of...
Legal & General paid over £1.388bn across more than 26,000 protection claims in 2025, with group protection totalling £396m, up 14 per cent, across group life assurance, group income protection and group...
Volatile markets and elevated bond yields have hit the funding of DB schemes according to the latest figures from the Pension Protection Fund. The aggregate surplus on 4,833 schemes in its PPF...
Rising amounts of defined benefit schemes in surplus coupled with significant reserves held in the Pension Protection Fund means it can transition from a needed ‘life boat’ for bankrupt schemes and instead...
HMRC is giving pension schemes insufficient time to prepare for changes which will bring pensions into the inheritance tax net next year, according to consultants LCP. Their stark warning comes as HMRC...
Smaller pension schemes are lagging on climate action when compared to larger counterparts, according to new research from XPS Group. It found almost nine out of 10 of larger schemes had “credible”...
The Pensions Regulator has published data showing that total costs per member generally decrease as size increases within a pension scheme. Average cost of membership in a small scheme (less than 20,000...
Nine in ten pension professionals believe property has a role to play in supporting individuals’ retirement income. The results were taken from a survey of 200 attendees at an event hosted by...
