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Pensions crisis

  • 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
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    Pensions
    Pension de-risking: the pitfalls for retirement savers

    Bonds, traditionally seen as safe assets for pension pots, have been subject to huge fluctuations in recent years

    Illustration of people increasing in age crossing a mountain range
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Time to hit the pensions panic button

    Possible Budget changes would widen the gulf between public and private sector pension schemes

  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Business InsightJohn Plender
    The pension fund transfer business needs urgent scrutiny

    Insurers are receiving a very handsome reward for such a low-risk business

  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    The best investment tip of all? Start when you’re young

    Sir Douglas Flint joins calls to boost personal finance teaching in schools

  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    James Henderson
    Why pension surpluses should get investors to prick up their ears

    With interest rates higher, many schemes are moving out of deficit, which could feed through to share prices

  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Gender pay gap
    Half of women ‘expect to run out of money in retirement’

    Gender gap persists as one in 10 women say they are cutting pension contributions to fund essential expenses

    Woman taking British bank notes from her wallet
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    What’s the chancellor’s next move going to be with my pension?

    Fiddling with pensions taxation could blight the retirement prospects of millions

  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Data is the key to supporting Britain’s poorest pensioners

    As energy bills rise, bolder reforms are needed to identify the 880,000 households missing out on pension credit

  • Saturday, 20 July, 2024
    Pensions
    ‘Government must act to avoid retirement crisis’

    Industry warns on pensions bill’s missed opportunity on minimum contributions

    Commuters at London’s Canary Wharf
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Pensions industry
    More FTSE-listed companies look to access pension surpluses

    More employers pause buyout plans with insurers after improvements to scheme funding positions

    Commuters leave a train station
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    LexPensions industry
    Old-style pensions are fixed. Now for their poorly funded successors Premium content

    There is a strong case for improving the pensions of the existing workforce

    Commuters at London Bridge
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Universities Superannuation Scheme
    Big UK pension scheme under pressure over Thames Water stake

    Universities Superannuation Scheme owns 20% stake in troubled utility that is in effect worthless

  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    Pensions industry
    UK pension rules risk ‘finishing off’ remaining defined-benefit plans, MPs warn

    Commons committee calls on government and regulator to change tack over where retirement schemes can invest

    Pension pay advice slips
  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    Pensions industry
    Members of Debenhams pension plan to have their benefits restored

    Thousands of people due to gain from transfer of scheme to ‘superfund’ operator Clara

    People walk past a closed Debenhams store
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Pension automatic enrolment
    Reforms to extend UK workplace pensions to young people ‘stuck in limbo’

    Minister makes no commitment to when measures that received cross-party support will be rolled out

    A young mechanic works on a car’s engine
  • 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
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