UK

The financial position of DB pensions continues to improve, with the PPF index showing scheme surpluses rose by £22.1bn over the past year. The surplus for the 4,838 schemes in this index...

About a third of employers, 32 per cent, do not track the impact of sickness absence, a shift from 2024 when 69 per cent did, the highest level in six years and...

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has issued new administration guidance for trustees and scheme managers amid consolidation and regulatory change across the sector. The regulator says this revised guidance is designed to help...

Smart Pension has completed the £650m transfer of assets from Options Workplace Pension Trust, bringing its total AUM to just over £9.3bn. This is one of the largest master trust to master...

Record numbers engaged with lost pensions on National Pension Tracing Day, with 190,000 reached on social media, nearly 2,000 starting to trace pots and 18,021 website sessions, up 131 per cent on...

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has launched a fresh drive to understand why pension schemes are are not allocating more money into private markets and UK infrastructure, despite government efforts to encourage long-term...

The number of shareholder rebellions against executive pay doubled over 2025, according to an analysis of voting at the AGMs of FTSE100 companies.  The figures from corporate governance adviser Indigo Governance showed...

The FCA will set a clearer demarcation between ‘retail’ and ‘professional’ investors in a bid to drive innovation and boost investment across the UK.  This will effectively remove regulations for firms dealing...

Barnett Waddingham has expanded its Scottish footprint by opening an office in Edinburgh. This comes after the firm opened an office in Glasgow earlier this year.  These moves are part of BW’s...

PMI-funded hospital admissions reached 338,000 in the first half of 2025, the highest first-half total on record and a slight increase on the 336,000 recorded in H1 2024, according to Broadstone. The...