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  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Personal Finance
    Ten things to tick off your financial to-do list in 2025

    From money-saving work perks to investments and tax planning, resolve to get your finances in shape this new year

    Illustration of a piggy bank and a pencil on an open spiral notebook with a checklist drawn on the page, set on a plain blue background
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Workplace diversity & equality
    Pensions: the industry where women are in charge

    The sector has a growing share of female leaders, who say they value purpose and work-life balance

    REF ONLY 1 Rachel Elwell  - CEO  Border to Coast Pensions Partnership. 2   Emma Douglas 3 Michelle Ostermann CEO of the Pension protection fund 4 Liz Fernando, CIO at Nest 5 Cassandra Lichnick CEO at Calstrs - handout 6 Carol Young, chief executive USS
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Personal Finance
    What’s the biggest financial mistake you’ve ever made?

    FT writers and readers confess their money blunders, bad investments and inane purchases

  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Pensions industry
    Insurers offer pension schemes discounts to meet buyout targets

    Plans pursuing bulk annuity transactions offered multimillion incentives to accelerate deals

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  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Private investing
    Free reader event: Quiz Stuart Kirk on his investment plans for 2025

    FT columnists Stuart Kirk, Claer Barrett and Moria O’Neill to take reader questions at online webinar

    Line-up of Stuart Kirk, Moira O’Neill and Claer Barrett
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Pensions crisis
    Investors call for UK government to reform defined benefit pensions

    Overhaul could free up billions for real estate and infrastructure, asset managers say

    Commuters cross London Bridge
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    News in-depthPublic sector pensions
    The simple secret behind the UK’s best performing council pension fund

    Banker driving Kensington and Chelsea’s stellar returns explains why he fears the chancellor’s ‘megafunds’

    Quentin Marshall
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    State pension
    UK rules out compensation for women affected by state pension age changes

    Liz Kendall says decision not to give payouts to so-called Waspi women is ‘difficult’ but ‘right course of action’

    Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaigners stage a protest outside the Houses of Parliament, in London
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Business InsightToby Nangle
    Maybe UK pension funds should be forced to invest in UK assets

    Domestic investment is the quid pro quo for pension tax relief

    Rachel Reeves speaks during a press conference
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    China expands private pension scheme and adds index funds

    Authorities hope the initiative, which makes use of index funds including ETFs, will boost investment in private pensions

    A Chinese investor takes a nap in front of an electronic board showing stock prices at a securities brokerage house in Beijing
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    Workplace pensions
    Reeves puts pensions review on hold to avoid extra burden on UK business

    Some experts argue current savings rates will leave people without adequate retirement pots

    Pension advice forms
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    Moira O'Neill
    Why pensions planning can feel like trying to nail jelly to a wall

    For decades, our retirement finances have been a political plaything

    A money safe with a dripping background
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    De La Rue PLC
    De La Rue in talks over stake with Edi Truell-backed investors

    Disruptive Capital and Pension Superfund looking to acquire as much as 40% in banknote publisher

    Staff manufacturer £10 Sterling Banknotes for the Bank of England at the De La Rue production facility
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    FCA looks to fill advice gap on pensions

    Companies will be able to offer ‘targeted support’ to customers without being fully regulated

    Pension scheme with one pound coins
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Can big oil escape the ‘valley of death’?

    Caught between pro-fossil fuel and green investors, oil majors scale back electricity plans

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    UK pensions are £283bn worse off than we thought. Time to panic?

    Bye-bye, buyout

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Final salary schemes
    UK pensions lifeboat wipes £283bn off defined benefit funding estimates

    ‘Hugely embarrassing’ recalculation puts schemes at a deficit of just over £130bn in 2023

    A £1 coin sits on a dictionary with an explanation of a pension fund below
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Pensions industry
    Public pension plans and wealth funds to invest more in private markets

    Survey showing demand for private equity and credit comes amid warnings over rapid growth of the sector

    A sign stands in front of California Public Employees’ Retirement System building in Sacramento, California
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Will my loved ones have to pay tax on my pension when I die?

    I’m worried about the new rules that mean my pension is subject to inheritance tax

  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    Pensions savings confidence hits seven-year low, says BlackRock

    Half of those questioned in survey said they cannot afford to save enough for retirement

    An elderly couple sit on a bench
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Pensions industry
    Pensions watchdog in strategic shift following government push for ‘megafunds’

    Regulator to change approach to focus on systemic risk as consolidation increases

    Nausicaa Delfas
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Pensions industry
    Pushing UK pensions into private markets would deliver ‘tiny’ gains, forecasts show

    Ministers have argued higher fund allocations to private equity and infrastructure would generate better returns

    Sterling banknotes
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    Pensions reform is vital to raise the UK’s dismal savings rate

    This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a system able to enhance both prosperity and security

    A pension scheme letter with a pin in it underneath some pound coins
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    Inheritance
    UK wealth managers warn Reeves over plan to levy inheritance tax on pensions

    AJ Bell boss tells chancellor that ‘complex and costly’ Budget proposal will ‘undermine’ retirement savings system

    A pedestrian holding an umbrella walks in the rain across Westminster Bridge in London with the Houses of Parliament in the background
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Moira O'Neill
    Quick fixes to lower your inheritance tax liability

    Act before pension pots are swept up by the tax net

    Illustration of an elderly woman and her house inside an hourglass
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