The government will struggle to prevent high charges post auto-enrolment because providers will hide them better, the Work and Pensions Select Committee has been warned.
IORPS reform: how it works
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October 8, 2012
The advice marks the latest stage in a complex legislative process through which the European Commission - the executive body of the European Union - hopes to introduce a new solvency regime for insurance and pension funds accross the continent.
Small pots feature
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September 20, 2012
The government remains undecided on how it will tackle the problem of small pots, but just two potential solutions remain in the running. PW asks the experts what the reality might be like for both of them.
Pension savers ignoring powerful shareholders voting rights
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September 10, 2012
Pension savers are more likely to use purchasing power to punish companies’ bad behaviour than through their investments, despite the latter being more effective.
Mears sold on B&CE non-profit approach
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September 10, 2012
Mears, the social housing repairs and maintenance provider, has become the first named large employer to sign up to B&CE’s The People’s Pension.
Women will be losers in new state pension
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September 3, 2012
Thousands of women who do not qualify for their own state pension could be worse off as a result of the new ‘flat rate’ reforms.
Binge drinkers could cash in on liver test
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September 3, 2012
More than one in five savers could find themselves richer in retirement thanks to a new traffic light test revealing tangible health damage from alcohol.
Olympic excitement distracting savers from pensions
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September 3, 2012
The Pensions Advisory Service received 13 per cent less calls in July because the Olympics distracted people’s attention away from their finances.
To smooth or not to smooth? The debate is hotting up
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September 2, 2012
Artificially high deficit figures have created a fraught atmosphere in the industry, with defined benefit scheme managers fretting over how to deal with them.
Smoothing gilts could starve sponsors
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August 28, 2012
Giving pension schemes slack by smoothing liability calculations would put them in danger of involuntarily starving their sponsors of cash, actuaries warn.