Professional Pensions: Stories of the week

Chancellor’s Mansion House speech, TPR DB Funding Code, Utmost enters BPA market

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Professional Pensions: Stories of the week

This week’s top stories include the chancellor giving her first Mansion House speech, The Pensions Regulator’s defined benefit funding officially coming into force, and Utmost Life and Pensions entering the bulk purchase annuity market with a £20m buy-in deal.

1.      Reeves to create LGPS and DC 'megafunds' in Mansion House growth bid Chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce plans to create pension "megafunds" through a series of reforms to the Local G...

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