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              Workplace pensions

              • Friday, 10 January, 2025
                Moira O'Neill
                Your new year pension tidy up could drag on until spring

                Why is it so difficult to transfer your retirement savings to a new provider?

              • Friday, 10 January, 2025
                Personal Finance
                Quarter of Britons in relationships hide savings from their partners, survey reveals

                Lawyers say secret accounts often come to light during mortgage applications

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              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                Financial ThinkingJonathan Guthrie
                How much money buys you happiness in retirement?

                Money can buy you some happiness, but less than you might think

              • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
                Pensions industry
                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
                LexPensions industry
                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
              • 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

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              • 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

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              • 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

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              • 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

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              • 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
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