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Workplace pensions

  • 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
    Pensions industry
    Insurers offer pension schemes discounts to meet buyout targets

    Plans pursuing bulk annuity transactions offered multimillion incentives to accelerate deals

    £5, £10, £20 and £50 of bank notes
  • 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
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    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, 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, 28 November, 2024
    Pensions
    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
  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 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
    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
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