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The Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) has been commissioned to prepare a report on the state pension age as part of the third state pension age review. The review will evaluate how current...

Schroders now manages more than £500m in assets across 10 defined benefit schemes through Enplan, the consolidation platform developed by Entrust and Isio. The milestone comes 18 months after Schroders joined as...

Retirement fintech platform Freedom has named Damian Stancombe as its chief executive officer. Stancombe was previously a partner at Barnett Waddingham and is the founder of 60 Paydays to Retirement, a financial...

The value of DB transfers have increased for the first time this year according to data from XPS Group. Its transfer value index increased to a month-end value of £141,000 on June,...

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has launched a £1 million programme aimed at tackling the decline in new entrants to the financial advice profession. The three-year initiative called Pathway to the Profession...

Aviva has launched a new ‘flex first, fix later’ guided retirement solution for its workplace customers.  This is initially available to those saving through Aviva’s master trust, with a view to rolling...

Death-in-service benefits from a registered scheme will be excluded from inheritance tax when the government brings pensions into the IHT net in 2027. This was confirmed in details published yesterday, setting out...

An independent report will decide whether the Government should bring forward plans to raise the state pension age to 68. This report will also look at the merits of automatically linking the state pension...

There has been broad industry support for the revived Pension Commission which will seek to make recommendations with the view to improving retirement adequacy.  Many providers want to see action taken to...

Baroness Jeannie Drake is to lead a new Pensions Commission, which will seek cross-party and industry consensus on improving pensions adequacy.  Alongside this Commission the Government has also launched a state pension...