Industry

This week's top stories include Scottish Widows buying Zurich's £15bn pension business, and Now Pensions appointing Dalriada Trustees to its trustee board.

Lloyds Banking Group has agreed to acquire Zurich's UK workplace pensions and savings business, which has assets under administration of more than £15bn and around 500,000 customers.

Nearly half (47%) of advisers have seen an increase in clients disagreeing with defined benefit (DB) transfer recommendations, according to Momentum Pensions.

This week's edition of Professional Pensions is out now

This week we want to know if the 0.75% charge cap makes it harder to offer a good auto-enrolment DC default fund and if asset managers need to be more innovative in the way they charge schemes.

Nudged winter fuel payments into life

October 2017 marks the fifth anniversary of auto-enrolment. Stephanie Hawthorne assesses its progress so far and looks at areas for future improvement.

Six in ten hospitality workers are slipping through the net of automatic enrolment (AE), a Trades Union Congress (TUC) analysis has found.

Michael Klimes takes a look at what politicians said about pensions at this year's party conferences

Respondents say starting contributions from an earlier age will benefit workers at retirement.