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    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
      Corporate bonds
      Pension fund demand drives resurgence of UK corporate bond market

      Schemes increase exposure in wake of 2022 gilts market crisis and as they prepare for buyout deals

      Commuters carry umbrellas while crossing London Bridge in London
    • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
      UK pension funds lost £425bn in year of bond market crisis

      Schemes registered a new quarter drop in asset value in 2022 driven by mini-Budget turmoil, finds Pensions Regulator

      City workers walk past the Bank of England
    • Friday, 26 January, 2024
      Claer Barrett
      Lifestyling: a hidden danger lurking in your pension pot

      Plight of savers in their 50s and 60s is wake-up call for greater pensions awareness

    • Monday, 22 January, 2024
      Pensions industry
      UK businesses to offload record £60bn of pension obligations

      Higher interest rates continue to fuel surge in dealmaking, according to new forecast

      The City of London skyline
    • Wednesday, 10 January, 2024
      Pensions
      Government defends access to UK pension surpluses

      Trustees will be prevented from making risky decisions if proposals go ahead

      Commuters heading across London Bridge towards the City of London
    • Friday, 8 December, 2023
      Final salary schemes
      Game over for DB pensions?

      Insert coin to discontinue

    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Pensions industry
      Jeremy Hunt to unveil expanded role for UK’s pensions lifeboat fund

      Chancellor’s move is part of range of measures aimed at channelling retirement fund investment to boost economic growth

      Jeremy Hunt
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      LexBT Group Plc
      BT/pensions: less is more for telecoms company’s obligation Premium content

      The arcane world of pension valuations could be set to move into the spotlight

      Incoming BT chief Allison Kirkby
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      Pensions industry
      Clara Pensions takes over Sears scheme in first UK ‘superfund’ deal

      Move provides alternative way for employers to offload weaker retirement programmes

      Screenshot of the Clara Pensions website
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      UK universities
      UK university staff vote to end acrimonious pension dispute

      Deal with union in effect reverses cuts to retirement benefits proposed in 2022 after contested valuation of main scheme

      UCU members on the picket line outside the London School of Economics
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Pension automatic enrolment
      ‘Give workers power to ditch pension schemes’

      UK regulator in call for reforms to workplace retirement savings

      Sarah Smart, chair of the Pensions Regulator
    • Sunday, 15 October, 2023
      Martin Wolf
      The strange death of corporate Britain

      Pension and insurance companies have dumped UK equities, reducing the ability of companies to raise capital and expand

      View of the City of London
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      LexVanessa Houlder
      The Lex Newsletter: finally, final salary pensions weaken their grip Premium content

      Changes in interest rates, inflation and life expectancy have propelled more schemes into surplus

      A Wincanton logistics facility in Northamptonshire
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Toby Nangle
      The government must not make the Pensions Regulator a lame duck

      Politicians should not forget that we all have a stake in a functioning pensions market

      Liz Truss addresses parliament from the speaker box
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Pensions
      Rollout of auto enrolled pensions for under-22s likely in 2025

      Government set to launch a consultation on key policy change

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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Pensions industry
      Truell mothballs Pension SuperFund after watchdog inaction

      The UK’s first commercial pension consolidator made three attempts at regulatory approval

      The City of London skyline
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Is the state pension really ‘a Ponzi scheme’?

      The triple lock makes it impossible for government — and individuals — to estimate the cost of retirement

    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Confederation of British Industry
      CBI pension scheme holds up merger with Make UK

      Manufacturers’ lobby group does not want to inherit retirement scheme

      The CBI HQ
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Fund management
      Jeremy Hunt’s pension plunder plan is bad business

      Big ideas for DB pensions look more harmful than helpful

    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Pension Protection Fund pushes for new remit to boost UK investment

      Statutory public corporation says its role should be expanded so that it can manage healthy defined benefit schemes

      People walk over London Bridge
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      John Ralfe
      Interest rates and pensions: good news and bad

      Company schemes look more secure — but annual increase caps hit defined benefit payouts

      An illustration of a female in a blue power suit opening an umbrella. She stands amid contrasting sunny and stormy weather conditions
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Universities Superannuation Scheme
      UK universities set to secure big cut in pensions bill

      Universities Superannuation Scheme records a surplus after more than a decade in deficit due to sharp rise in interest rates

      A student walks in the campus of Glasgow university
    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
      Workplace pensions
      UK seeks to improve employers’ access to pension surpluses

      Government opens consultation on how to channel billions of pounds from defined benefit funds into wider economy

      Pound coins stacked on top of of £10, £20 and £50 notes
    • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
      The Big Read
      The pension deal bonanza remaking the UK’s retirement sector

      Soaring interest rates have facilitated a big rise in ‘bulk annuity’ transactions, but the impact of transferring tens of billions of pounds of assets to a handful of insurers could be profound

    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      Workplace pensions
      BP in talks over insurance deal for £30bn pension scheme

      Fund’s trustees considering paying an insurer to take over liabilities of energy group’s UK final salary plan

      BP logo
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