The government's proposal to lower the auto-enrolment age threshold for workplace pension schemes from 22 to 18 is expected to have unintended consequences for women because it aims to encourage early retirement...
Canada Life has announced the appointment of Tom Evans as managing director of retirement. Evans, who previously served as the interim MD of retirement starting in autumn 2022, was formerly managing director...
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Higher annuity rates have led to a surge in sales, with the market exceeding £1bn in the first three months of 2023. Figures published by the Association of British Insurers show that...
Aon has appointed Nigel Aston to be an associate partner and market development lead of its UK defined contribution solutions team. Aston joins from State Street Global Advisors where he was a...
The Pension Protection Fund should be turned into a ‘superfund’ to boost investments into the UK economy according to Tony Blair’s Institute for Global Change think tank. Its ‘Future of Britain’ initiative...
PensionBee has launched its new protection insurance offering in partnership with LifeSearch. Customers of PensionBee will have access to online critical illness insurance, mortgage insurance, and family life insurance comparisons, applications, and...
The Irish market, whilst broadly similar to the UK market in terms of pension provision in some ways, is different in that the use of target date funds is not widespread. In...
The Transfer Activity Index experienced a significant drop of almost 12 per cent in April, according to the latest data from XPS Pension Group. The annualised rate of transfers out of current...
Nest's assets under management (AUM) have topped £30bn, with 45 per cent of those investments in private assets allocated particularly to the UK. The scheme's investments have grown fivefold since 2019, marking...
