Smart Pension has acquired Welplan Pensions Master Trust. Welplan currently provides pensions for around 1,800 employers and has 55,000 individual members in its master trusts, with aggregate funds of around £200m. However last...
The gender ‘pensions gap’ is significantly worse than the gender pay gap, and the problems should be addressed in this week’s Budget. Leading pension campaigner Ros Altmann claims women are losing out...
More than half of employers say their staff want them to develop clear policies on sustainability and the environment, according to a new benefits survey. This has increased sharply over the past...
The income gap for pensioners has almost doubled over the past 10 years, with those in the richest households seeing their private pension income grow at a far faster rate. New figures...
David Attenborough’s recent series, Seven Worlds, One Planet was hard to miss. The opening episode alone attracted some 7 million views. The series focuses on the natural world and frequently references climate...
At the end of last year, ShareAction published a review of the 16 largest master trusts by assets under management (AUM). The review set out to explore how environmental, social, governance (ESG)...
Next week’s Budget will change the pension tax rules, according to reports, to ensure doctors — and other higher-paid public sectors workers — aren’t hit with tax bills for overtime. The Financial Times...
Many employees still feel confused about pensions and only just over half think their workplace pension will provide an adequate standard of living in retirement, according to new research. However the Institute...
Figures show 6.3m employees are still without a workplace pension, despite the fact that the proportion of workers saving for retirement has hit an all-time high. Latest figures from the Office of...
Leading auto-enrolment providers are calling for urgent reform of the mechanism for funding regulation of occupational pensions. The Department of Work and Pensions has just announced a 10 per cent increase to...
