Ahead of a vote in the House of Lords on the Pension Schemes Bill, Conservative MP Helen Whately spoke on her party’s opposition to the mandation power for a special episode of the Always a Pensions Angle podcast.
As Pension Awareness Week begins, new research from Aptia shows more and more people are relying on their pension provider’s digital services to make key decisions about their retirement.
Improved funding levels and changing DB endgames are altering what schemes need from their fiduciary managers, according to XPS Group.
Proposed changes to PPF valuation assumptions have prompted calls for a wider rethink of s179 requirements and warnings over unintended consequences for levy calculations and Fast Track funding.
USS has agreed to take over a rail freight company, while Insight is to help facilitate surplus sharing through a £1bn mandate with an unnamed DB pension scheme.