Pension News
Personal Finance Society partners with Beat the Pensions Crisis
The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has announced its partnership with Beat the Pensions Crisis, a new enterprise that empowers consumers to improve their retirement finances through clear guidance and practical actions.
LV= improves Flexible Transitions Account offering
Leading retirement solutions provider LV= has improved its Flexible Transitions Account with a new wrapper charge, making the product more competitive.
Zurich highlights key retirement planning issues
With industry experts predicting the ‘at retirement' market is set to increase by sixty per cent in the next five years and falling investment markets affecting accumulated pensions savings, the need for retirement planning has never been greater.
British pensioners feeling the pinch home and abroad
As the effect of Sterling on the UK economy is debated, it's not just Brits living at home who are feeling the ongoing effects of a weak pound.
Volkswagen and RNLI receive Pension Quality Mark
Volkswagen Group UK and The Royal National Lifeboat Institution are among the latest wave of companies to be awarded the NAPF's prestigious new Pension Quality Mark.
Calls for better pension incentives and flexible savings for women
At the launch of its fifth annual Women and Pensions Report, Scottish Widows called on the Government to introduce better pension incentives to encourage women to save.
Three more schemes transfer over to the PPF
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) took three more schemes under its wing last month (September), resulting in a further 1,054 people around the UK now receiving compensation - or will do so in the future.
Employee confidence in pensions returns
Employee confidence in pensions has strongly improved since the end of last year, when the economy went into recession, reveals the National Association of Pension Funds' latest Workplace Pensions Survey at the start of its Annual Conference.
Barriers increasing in pensions gender race
Women continue to lose out to men as the gender pensions gap widens according to the fifth annual Scottish Widows Women and Pensions Report - "Women's pensions today and tomorrow" as the financial crisis takes its toll.
Saga launches leading annuity service
Saga Personal Finance has launched an annuity service designed to deliver better pension income for people with pension pots of up to £100,000. Saga's new annuity service ensures there is a trusted brand offering competitive rates to meet the needs of the prudent savers of Middle Britain.
Future hope for private sector pensions
Extensive new research carried out by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and BlackRock, has shed new light on employees' and employers' view of pensions.
Go-getting Active Pensioners
Romance and socialising have replaced bird-watching and bowls as a new generation of ‘Go.A.Ps' rips up the rule book on retirement - the first year post-work is the best year yet, according to a new study.
Aviva pensions TV advertising campaign to help consumers
Aviva is launching a new series of TV adverts designed to encourage younger generations to start thinking about pensions.
Friends to provide stakeholder scheme for HDI-Gerling
The UK Branch of HDI-Gerling, the German industrial insurer, has selected Friends Provident to supply a new group stakeholder pension scheme for its UK employees.
Adventurous, entrepreneurial and growing old disgracefully
Over 6.3 million Britons over 50, equivalent to one third (30%) of this generation, are planning to follow in the footsteps of Jack Nicholson, Ronnie Wood, Vivienne Westwood and Amanda Redman by ‘growing old disgracefully', according to new research, compared with just one sixth (14%) who feel they've become more conservative as they've grown older.