Mortality rates across England and Wales were 3.8% lower in 2019 than in 2018, representing the largest annual fall since 2011.

The Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has named Fred Emden as its first chief executive.

KPMG’s pensions advisory business has relaunched following a £200m leveraged buyout that will see it rebrand as Isio.

This week’s top stories included further calls for reforms of the pension freedoms, and prevailing uncertainty over cuts to tax relief on pension contributions.

There was no industry consensus on the benefits and negatives of scrapping high-rate tax relief from this week’s 115 Pension Buzz peers in split results.

Four in five of Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) members say the minimum age criterion for auto-enrolment (AE) should be dropped while two thirds also want it expanded to age 75.

Law Debenture has reported a smaller overall growth in pensions revenue for 2019 despite an increase in net pensions revenue.

The Money and Pensions Service (Maps) has named 12 sector leaders as challenge group chairs to spearhead its newly launched strategy for financial wellbeing.

Taxes will have to increase after the March Budget if the government plans to honour the spending plans in outlined last year, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned.

Reports that new chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to abandon cuts to tax relief on pensions contributions are continuing to circle.