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Pensions

  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Inside BusinessJohn Plender
    The pension fund transfer business needs urgent scrutiny

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

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Chinese society
    China to raise retirement age for first time since 1978

    Beijing battles demographic crisis and pressure on pension system by keeping population in workforce for longer

    Two elderly men play Chinese chess at a park in Beijing
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    And the Budget changes most feared by FT readers are . . . 

    Attendees of the FT Weekend Festival are selling assets and passing on inheritances ahead of October’s Budget

  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Chris Giles
    Reeves should tackle excessively generous pensions taxation

    The chancellor must be careful not to increase the damaging incentives in the tax system as she seeks sources of revenue

    Senior citizens wrap up warm to do shopping in Northwich
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    UK politics
    Reeves seeks to minimise Labour rebellion over plan to curb UK pensioner benefits

    Chancellor urges party unity as she sticks by policy to means test winter fuel payments

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves waves while leaving Downing Street
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Financial services
    West Yorkshire Pension Fund buys 25% stake in flood prevention investor

    Scheme takes seed investment as chancellor questions future of local government retirement schemes

    Flood warning sign
  • 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
    Pensions industry
    UK minister puts boosting automatic pension contributions on back burner

    Emma Reynolds says her first objective is to ‘increase pension investment in UK productive assets’

  • 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, 6 September, 2024
    Pensions industry
    UK pension funds’ allocations to British stocks hit historic low

    Retirement schemes shun London-listed equities and private markets

    Skyscrapers and buildings including the Gherkin on the City of London skyline
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    InterviewPersonal Finance
    Dan Neidle: ‘A UK wealth tax wouldn’t work’

    Respected tax lawyer urges Labour government to consider how tax raises could stunt economic growth

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a press conference at the Treasury in central London
  • 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

  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Telecoms
    BT still has a big pension problem

    (And it’s got worse)

  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    Insurance
    UK annuities on track for best sales in a decade

    Higher interest rates and new rules push people back to retirement products with guaranteed incomes

    A woman and a man look out towards the beach while sitting on a bench
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    Skin in the GameStuart Kirk
    Those of us in our fifties have to fight for every basis point we can

    Boosting investment returns sure beats working for longer in order to retire

  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    John Plender
    The risks of radical accounting changes

    Policymakers, regulators and investors need to be acutely aware of unintended consequences

    Emissions from a power plant at sunset
  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
    LexPensions industry
    Local pensions need a hard shove towards Canada’s model Premium content

    Bulking up should allow funds to invest in wider range of UK assets, but progress towards consolidation has been slow

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
    Wilkinson Hardware Stores
    Wilko parent does not expect to plug collapsed chain’s estimated £70mn pension hole

    Ultimate owner of discount brand, whose directors include its former chair, argues it is off the hook for liabilities

  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    State pension
    Widowed pensioners ‘could be owed thousands’ in UK state pension

    Former minister warns of new group hit by potential underpayments

    A state pension statement
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Pensions industry
    Sorry, but it’s time to start caring about Local Government Pension Schemes

    And we have the charts to prove it

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Universities Superannuation Scheme
    UK’s biggest private pension fund dumps £80mn of Israeli assets

    USS has ‘materially’ reduced exposure to Israeli stocks and debt following pressure from members

    Person holding cellphone with logo of Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    John Ralfe
    The problem with auto-enrolled pensions

    Government must intervene on behalf of lower-paid workers

    Commuters at London’s Canary Wharf
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    LexPensions industry
    Pension funds are not winning the argument on costlier, riskier assets

    Enthusiasm is hardly overwhelming a year on from the Mansion House agreement

    London city skyline
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