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FCA review of non-advised drawdown pension sales

Our findings will also help inform the Retirement Outcomes Review which will be published during the first half of 2018.

The advice requirement and overseas pension transfers

Government response to the call for evidence

Warburg, Disruptive Capital Launch UK’s First Pension Consolidation Fund

The private equity firms are providing £500 million to seed the ‘superfund.’

Scottish pension funds have multi-million pound stakes in 'sanctioned' Russian firms

The Lothians equivalent has a £1m-plus investment in Sberbank, a Moscow-headquartered bank punished by the European Union.

Curtis Banks’ profits jump as M&A beds in

But the firm had also seen revenues grow as a result of its purchase of Suffolk Life in 2016.

U.K. Pension Liabilities Increase to 7.6 Trillion Pounds

Plans were around 94 percent funded at the end of December, according to Pension Protection Fund.

Pension freedoms ‘concern’ Isle of Man providers

There was a “critical lack of transparency” by the Isle of Man’s treasury minister in the lead up to introducing pension freedoms for the island, the chair of the jurisdiction’s association of pension scheme providers told Internat

Polish government gives green light for auto-enrolment pensions

The programme will be implemented in six-month stages

Govt’s plans to tackle pension scams ‘light on detail’

The response also revealed Pension Wise is considering further enhancements to the digital appointment and pilots to test ways for referring pension holders to the service.

Royal London floats 'care pension' insurance product

In return the insurer would agree to pay the policy holder a set amount into a special care account, in the event the individual develops care needs.

British Business Bank to provide $141mln to firms hit by Carillion collapse

Carillion's 200-year-old business collapsed last month

Dentons assets surpass £4bn with Sippchoice acquisition

Dentons Pension Management joint managing director Ian Stewart explains the deal demonstrates the firm’s commitment to the Sipp market.

UK High Court to hear objections to Barclays’ pension plans

Staff oppose proposals to back scheme with riskier, non-ringfenced bank

Better health and economic activity key to easing UK pension crisis

In 1970 the UK had more than four people of working age for every one aged 65-plus.

Aegon publicly slammed by PensionBee chief exec

Savovi claims that a typical electronic transfer with similar providers is completed in 12 days or less.

Old Mutual Wealth partners with Mobius

The new partnership comes after Old Mutual Wealth announced last November it was closing its institutional investment platform to new business because it is no longer core to its strategy.

QROPS Petition Protest Takes On Overseas Transfer Charge

The overseas transfer charge comes to 25% of the value of any pension fund.

The battle for investment fund transparency

Transparency campaigners say that for years the UK's investment management industry used its substantial lobbying power to resist efforts to expose these hidden costs.

HSBC, Santander reveal ring-fencing plans for pension schemes

The whole point of splitting banks in two is to protect the safe retail bank

MPs enter the fray over Barclays’ plan for pension scheme

Under ringfencing proposals, responsibility for paying £42 billion of pensions of Barclays staff is being shifted from the entire bank to the division

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