Industry

Jonathan Stapleton outlines how PP has revamped its editorial, award and event programmes for 2014

Almost a quarter of young people in Britain expect to retire by the age of 60, according to research from Aegon.

The shortlist for the Art of Pensions 2013 has been published.

Sponsors of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes will be called on for additional funding of £250bn over the next decade if current market conditions continue, a report warned today.

Friends Life added £6m of new corporate benefits business between July and September and says in its interim results that it aims to add £6m more in Q4.

The Tax Incentivised Savings Association (TISA) Exchange (Tex) has launched a contract club of transfer providers to cut pension transfer times to no longer than six working days.

Today is the deadline to register for the UK Pensions Awards 2014, which celebrate excellence within the industry.

Long-term gilt yields are unlikely to rise above 4% for many years taking into account past performance, economics and supply and demand, according to Barnett Waddingham partner Matt Tickle.

This week respondents backed calls for The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to run a register of charges and for Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) to be merged, but said there is no role for paternalism in auto-enrolment (AE).

More than four out of five respondents said employers had no moral obligation to persuade staff to participate in a scheme once they had been auto-enrolled and had opted out.