05/23/2016
Study claims hidden fees are helping to reduce your pension pot by more than a third
New research finds more than 100 charges are being levied on pensions
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05/23/2016
PIC considers black consortium for Barclays Africa
Barclays Africa is one of the big four banks that dominate South Africa’s financial sector.
05/19/2016
Queen's Speech 2016: Pensions Bill to toughen master trust regulation
It will also give greater powers to the regulator to authorise and supervise these schemes and take action when necessary.
05/19/2016
Tax breaks attacked as being ‘welfare for wealthy’
The criticism is the latest in a series of attacks on tax breaks from MPs and others who say there is insufficient scrutiny of their effectiveness and design.
05/18/2016
Report slams "shocking" level of pension scheme investment in hedge funds
It also estimated that UK pension schemes paid around £2.85bn in fees and charges for their hedge fund investments in 2015.
05/18/2016
New Pensions Bill To Provide More Protection For Retirement Savers
A new Pensions Bill promises to bolster protections for those saving for their retirement and remove barriers for people who want to access their savings flexibly.
05/17/2016
Pension Manager One year on: Pension Minister Ros Altmann is failing pensioners
The scathing observation from Angela Brooks of Pension Life, set up to identify and prevent pension scams, close loopholes in pension law and rescue victims of pension fraud, comes as the former Saga boss completes her first year in office.
05/16/2016
Pensions Lifeboat Battles KKR For Green Bank
The Pension Protection Fund and KKR have been shortlisted to buy the UK's state-owned Green Investment Bank
05/16/2016
Webb prods government again over pension reform
Royal London, the UK’s biggest mutual insurer which runs its pensions and protection business out of Edinburgh, has published the report to coincide with a London conference today.
05/16/2016
Uncertainty clouds the outlook for pension funds
The defined benefit model is supremely unsuited to a world of low or negative interest rates
05/16/2016
Expats Still Losing Out Over QROPS Flexible Access
The Chancellor George Osborne made a spectacular U-turn after realising he had goofed with the rules.
05/15/2016
Automatic enrolment success at risk from pension regulation weaknesses
The report points to the "tremendous success" of AE, with additional 6.1 million people enrolled in a workplace pension
05/15/2016
Final Salary Schemes 'Tipping Point': 50-Somethings Now More Reliant On 'Defined Contribution' Schemes
A new landmark will be reached this year when workers approaching retirement will become more reliant on "defined contribution" pensions than final salary schemes
05/13/2016
UK pensions overseas: what happens if you decide to move home?
What are the tax implications if you've got a Qrops in an international financial centre such as Gibraltar but then your expat assignment comes to an end?
05/13/2016
Standard Life Sleepwalks Towards A Pay Revolt
First Schroders, now Standard Life: it’s turning into a season of grand City institutions firing bullets into their own feet.
05/13/2016
Pensions Round-Up by Herbert Smith Freehills
Welcome to the May 2016 edition of our Pensions E-Bulletin – our monthly round-up of pensions legal developments.
05/13/2016
Trustees must hold professional qualification; research finds
Trustees quite literally have the future retirement prospects of members in their hands
05/13/2016
MPs warn pension freedoms could trigger ‘mass misselling’
But the risks of misselling remain, for example pensions freedoms reforms are a potential trigger for future mass misselling.
05/12/2016
Pensions - a great investment for young people - Close Brothers
The further away you are from retirement, the more time you have to save and for those savings to also build over time.
05/12/2016
Are low interest rates impacting your retirement? - Close Brothers
Yet there are steps you can take to give yourself the best chance of retiring at the age you wish to.