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Global wealth managers the deVere Group is to expand its corporate business across Europe, by offering financial advice as part of an employee benefit programme.  The advisory firm is best known for...

The issue of pension scheme governance has risen up the policy agenda dramatically in recent years driven primarily by the establishment and expansion of auto-enrolment. The extra scrutiny involved has seen both the...

From the start of October 2019, trustees overseeing auto-enrolment defined contribution schemes will be obliged, by law, to give due consideration to a greater number of factors that may impact the performance...

The tapered annual allowance pension rules are a classic example of bad policy design. The rules are far too complicated, impossible to predict properly and have damaging side-effects which undermine the aims...

Wellness is increasingly becoming one of the key discussion points in the benefits market. That said, much of what intermediaries are deploying is in-person or paper-based solutions. I believe what is needed...

More than one in four pension trustees and managers said a lack of products made it difficult to implement investment policies which take account of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factor, according...

Millions of pension savers could be missing out on up to £10,000 each, because their providers have the incorrect retirement age.  Many people are in schemes which were set up when the...

Five pension providers have received the top ‘gold medal’ rating from consultants FTRC from their workplace pension propositions.  FTRC updates this research on an annual basis, and includes rating for both workplace...

A lack of engagement on pensions, poor scheme governance, and having multiple pensions pots may have as detrimental effect on retirement outcomes as high and opaque charging structures, according to a new...

Just one in five employers have met new standards on mental health, set out in a key government review. In October 2017 the Stevenson/Farmer report recommended six core standards to improve workplace...