The Department of Work & Pensions has confirmed that Alex Burghart will be the new minister for pensions and growth. His official title is Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department...
The Pensions Regulator has offered guidance to trustees, setting out action they need to take before the Bank of England’s ends its bond buyback programme at the end of this week. The...
Ross Trustees has made eight new hires over the last quarter, expanding its team by 10 per cent. The pension services firm says this expanded team of 67 specialist will help it...
Willis Towers Watson has called for the government to "go back to the drawing board" and redraft proposed new DB funding rules. In response to a Department of Work and Pensions’ consultation...
WPA Is now offering its LifeStage Health product to the SME market. This plan provides access to care and support options for a number of conditions that are often excluded from traditional...
Zedra has acquired Clear Pen Solutions, a professional trustee service, increasing its footprint in the UK pensions services and corporate pensions market. This is the latest acquisition by Zedra, which snapped up...
Smart Pension has acquired Ensign Master Trust, its eighth acquisition since launch. The Ensign Master Trust has £158m in assets, and runs the workplace pensions for 5,100 members across 62 employers. It...
Ten years on from the launch of auto-enrolment and two decades from the Pensions Commission that shaped it, the world of workplace pensions has been transformed. Reducing means testing, raising the state...
Significant gaps remain in pension awareness and engagement 10 years after the launch of auto enrolment, according to new research. Standard Life has found that female and lower income workers are disproportionately...
GlaxoSmithKline spin-off Haleon has appointed LifeSight to run its company pension. Previously this was a single-employer trust, run by GSK. The scheme, which has 2,000 members will now use LifeSight’s master trust. ...
