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Pensions

  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    Pensions industry
    Government could force pension funds to invest more in UK assets

    Further measures may be taken if ‘megafund’ reforms fail to boost domestic investment, says pensions minister

    Emma Reynolds, UK pensions minister
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    ExplainerPensions industry
    Rachel Reeves’ plans to reform Britain’s pensions industry

    Proposals expected to lead to rapid consolidation of workplace retirement schemes and reallocation of assets

    Montage shows a series of arrows pointing at a neon pound note sign
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    LexPensions industry
    Reeves must go bigger and bolder on local pensions reform Premium content

    If the UK chancellor believes in the benefits of scale, it is not obvious why 8 is the magic number

    Rachel Reeves sits at a table during her Mansion House speech in London
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Do I need inheritance tax insurance?

    Budget changes prompt wave of interest in life cover to avoid families scrambling to pay tax bills

    Illustration of a hand gripping an hourglass with money falling out the bottom
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Private investing
    Make an appointment to hear our new ‘Investment Clinic’ podcast

    Money Clinic seeks guests who will allow experts to run the rule over their personal investment portfolio

    Logo for the Money Clinic podcast
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Toby Nangle
    Reeves seeks scale to solve UK pension investment problem

    Chancellor is trying to remove some of the inefficiencies from operating smaller local authority funds

    Pound coin and notes
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Britain’s bold plan to create super funds

    The case for consolidating the UK’s sprawling pension arsenal is strong

    Members of the HS2 Tunnel Boring Machine team manoeuvre the cutterhead into position
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    Pensions industry
    Reeves to force council pensions to consolidate into 8 ‘megafunds’

    Chancellor to target minimum size for multiemployer defined contribution schemes of £25bn to £50bn

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves talks to the Financial Times at biotech firm Quell in White City in west London on November 13
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Could TikTok, apps and Gemma Collins boost women’s pensions?

    Scottish Widows study shows more than 2mn UK women will not be able to afford to retire

    Reality TV and social media star Gemma Collins is fronting the Pay Your Pension Some Attention campaign
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Public sector pensions
    The race to build a £354bn British pensions behemoth

    Reeves’ Mansion House speech will push for faster integration of council retirement schemes

    Manchester, Liverpool and Bradford town halls
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    UK economy
    Reeves plans to use £350bn council pension pot to boost UK economy

    Chancellor to set out reform to fragmented local authority funds in Mansion House speech

    Reeves, with Mansion House in background
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    UK tax
    UK employers eye staff pension schemes to cut national insurance bills

    More companies intend to use salary sacrifice arrangements to offset Budget tax rises

    Collection of pay advice slips
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Pensions industry
    New Lord Mayor to push pension funds to invest more in London-listed companies

    Alastair King takes office in the Square Mile on Friday and says measure necessary to boost stock market

    The new Lord Mayor of London, Alastair King, photographed at the Mansion House in the City of London
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Moira O'Neill
    The great post-Budget pensions rethink

    But there are several tools you can use to cut an IHT bill

    Commuters walk along the concourse at London Waterloo station
  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    News in-depthFrench politics
    Barnier touches nerve with plan to trim French pensions

    Prime minister’s money-saving proposal hits opposition, despite calls for more intergenerational fairness

    Michel Barnier waves outside the Élysée palace in Paris, France in October 2024
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Budget Q&A: Readers’ questions answered

    Experts respond to queries about measures announced in the autumn Budget

  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Autumn Budget 2024: where will you feel the pinch?

    FT reporters review this week’s £40bn tax-raising measures

    An illustration of Rachel Reeves surrounded by pound notes in the shape of autumn leaves
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    UK savings plans overhauled with planned pension tax changes

    Advisers race to rethink approach after Rachel Reeves pledges to bring retirement pots under inheritance levy regime

    A photo illustratuon showing the dictionary definition of pension fund and British pound coins
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Q&AUK Autumn Budget 2024
    Experts answer your Budget questions

    We responded to readers’ queries about personal finance

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Closure of UK inheritance tax ‘loophole’ to penalise estates of wealthy pensioners

    Experts say big tax bills could result from Rachel Reeves’ move in the Budget

    Commuters walk during the morning rush hour near the Bank of England in the City of London
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Inheritance
    Inheritance tax reforms to hit business owners and farmers

    Tax relief to be capped on assets worth more than £1mn

    Farm buildings in Wiltshire
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Working people will pay the price of higher taxes for employers

    Increasing the burden on companies may not affect workers’ payslips today, but it won’t be long

    Commuters make their way across Waterloo Bridge in London
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Moira O'Neill
    Will investors live to regret their pre-Budget actions?

    Gains may have been locked in too soon in anticipation of a bigger CGT increase

    Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    What the Budget means for your money

    Key measures on tax, investments, pensions and property

    Illustration of a street scene
  • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
    Uruguay
    Vote on lowering pension age to 60 jangles nerves in Uruguay

    Public to decide on a union-backed reform that worries the government, economists and markets

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