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Utmost Group has agreed to sell its bulk purchase annuity (BPA) business, Utmost Life and Pensions (ULP), to JAB Insurance. The sale includes the entire ULP business, which holds more than £5bn...

Employees working just two days a week on the new National Living Wage will now qualify for auto-enrolment pensions, according to Standard Life. According to the analysis, from April 2026, the National...

Hargreaves Lansdown has partnered with Smart-owned technology platform Keystone in a multi-phase investment to upgrade its Workplace business. According to the firms, the multi-million-pound deal will improve employer administration and allow employees...

Many in the industry may be wary of securitised debt arrangements, given the role that these bundled investments played in the global financial crisis.  But as the workplace pension sector looks to...

What’s your current role – and what does it involve? I am an investment consultant at Quantum Advisory. To summarise my role in one sentence, I help institutional investors set and achieve...

Benefits platform Ben has raised £20.8m in a Series B round to support its product roadmap and its go-to-market capabilities. It was led by Mercia Ventures, with involvement from existing investors Atomico,...

More than half of UK pension savers are building retirement wealth outside of pensions, with a heavy reliance on cash according to new research. Interactive Investor found that 57 per cent of...

Interest in DB superfunds is rising, with nearly two thirds of pension professionals saying they are more likely to consider them than they were 18 months ago, according to polling by the...

The Pensions Regulator has launched a consultation on its new code of practice for multi-employer CDC schemes.  This revised code sets out the authorisation criteria for providers who want to run one...

SPONSORED COPY How can providers support members when it comes to retirement decisions?  Effective retirement support starts with understanding members’ needs, and these can be very different. This isn’t just about pension...