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Pensions industry

  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    LexPrivate equity
    Mom and pop pension savers could benefit from private markets, at the right price Premium content

    Private equity made strong returns from investing in alternative assets over the past 30 years

    Steve Schwarzman in Davos, Switzerland in January 2024
  • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
    Should the UK really look to Canada’s pension system as its model?

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves wants to learn lessons from the ‘Maple 8’ — but they have their own problems

    Commuters cross Bay Street in Toronto
  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    Lex
    Helping boomers spend their retirement funds is harder than it sounds Premium content

    Worries about running out of money makes people frugal and wary of taking any big pension decisions

    Glass jar labelled ‘Pension’ on its side, with coins that have fallen out next to it
  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    John Ralfe
    Labour’s pension reforms are based on flawed analysis

    What exactly do savers get out of investing in the UK, other than a patriotic glow?

    Rachel Reeves delivers her Mansion House speech
  • 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
    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
  • 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
    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
    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
    Pensions
    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
    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
  • 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 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
    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, 18 November, 2024
    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
    Explainer
    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
    Lex
    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
  • 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
    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
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