The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has urged advice firms to cease contacting former British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) members with unsolicited settlement offers after some companies offered them settlements as little as...
DB pension plan trustees and sponsors are concerned about increased costs and time demands from compliance activity, for the DB Funding Code's implementation later this year was Hymans Robertson. Over half of...
PASA has launched a whitepaper titled ‘Focusing on a Saver-Centric experience’. According to the paper, one of the biggest obstacles to delivering automated calculations is still data quality. Paper-based records, antiquated legacy...
A Value for Money framework is being developed as part of the government's ongoing discussions to improve the outcomes for defined contribution (DC) members and make it simpler for business experts and...
Broadstone has appointed David Hamilton as its new chief actuary, heading up the consultancy’s 100-strong actuarial division. In his role Hamilton will be is responsible for leading the firm’s actuarial thinking. He...
Smart has broken through the £5bn assets under management (AUM) barrier on its proprietary Keystone platform. Smart’s AUM has more than doubled since January 2022, with a year-on-year increase of 117 per...
Canada Life is offering a new mental wellbeing app to all workplace protection policyholders. The app - known as myStrength - will be available to all employees, and family members, of companies...
A fifth of employers are missing out on tax savings by not using salary sacrifice, and many of those that are doing so are not using it effectively, according to research from...
There has been a 40 per cent increase in small pot pension transfers over the past two years, according to the latest data from Origo. In total the number of transfers of...
People’s Partnership, provider of the People's Pension, has appointed former Royal London director David Meliveo to the role of chief commercial officer. Meliveo's role at Royal London saw him deliver growth in market share...
