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The pensions dashboard can tackle the savings gap if it is personalised
The pensions dashboard can tackle the savings gap if it is personalised

Natanje Holt says the pensions dashboard could hold the key to helping people engage with their saving if it is set up correctly

  • Admin / Technology
  • 24 February 2017
PBUK: Samsung launches workplace ISA to tackle changing benefits landscape
PBUK: Samsung launches workplace ISA to tackle changing benefits landscape

Samsung has introduced a workplace ISA to address the changing savings priorities of its 1400 staff.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 04 July 2016
JLT's CEO urges industry 'call to arms' over data issues
JLT's CEO urges industry 'call to arms' over data issues

Actions to tackle the lack of data quality must be spearheaded by the industry, according to JLT Employee Benefits' Bala Viswanathan.

  • Industry
  • 23 May 2016
Class 4 NIC reform could be answer for self-employed pensions
Class 4 NIC reform could be answer for self-employed pensions

Royal London has come up with a plan to boost pensions coverage for the self-employed. PP looks at the details

  • Defined Contribution
  • 25 April 2016
Resolution Foundation: tax relief reforms could help lower earners save more
Resolution Foundation: tax relief reforms could help lower earners save more

Reducing tax relief for higher earners and raising it for lower earners could save the government money and make the system fairer according to the Resolution Foundation.

  • Industry
  • 10 March 2016
Steve Webb: moving state pension age to 66 should have started much earlier
Steve Webb: moving state pension age to 66 should have started much earlier

Former pensions minister Steve Webb has said reaching a state pension age of 66 by 2020 should have been done over a much longer period.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 09 March 2016
Government warned against moving to 'damaging' pension ISA
Government warned against moving to 'damaging' pension ISA

Radically reforming the pensions tax relief system could disincentivise saving, according to a report by the International Longevity Centre - UK (ILC-UK) and Age UK.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 04 March 2016
Aon calls the odds on pension tax relief reform
Aon calls the odds on pension tax relief reform

A flat-rate of tax relief is the most likely reform to appear in the Chancellor's March Budget according to Aon Hewitt‘s predictions.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 23 February 2016
ABI: pension ISAs could slash savings by a sixth in two decades
ABI: pension ISAs could slash savings by a sixth in two decades

Introducing a pension ISA could dramatically lower savings and reduce the size of the economy over 20 years according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

  • Defined Contribution
  • 16 February 2016
Jamie Jenkins: flat rate of tax relief would still incentivise saving
Jamie Jenkins: flat rate of tax relief would still incentivise saving

Auto-enrolment (AE) would not be undermined if the Chancellor introduces a flat rate tax incentive in next month's Budget, according to Standard Life's Jamie Jenkins.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 05 February 2016
Room for positivity on freedom and choice but challenges remain
Room for positivity on freedom and choice but challenges remain

Helen Morrissey looks at PLSA research into the experiences of the first people to access retirement income freedoms.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 02 February 2016
Citizens Advice: half of self-employed people do not trust pensions
Citizens Advice: half of self-employed people do not trust pensions

Self-employed people would rather invest cash into savings accounts, cash ISAs or property than pay into a private pension, according to research by Citizens Advice.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 28 January 2016
Michael Johnson lays out ten-point plan to reform tax relief

The government has been urged to scrap tax and national insurance relief on retirement savings and replace pensions with ‘ISA warehouses' in a radical shake up.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 12 October 2015
Can we rely on pension reforms to last?

Helen Morrissey says savers are right to be suspicious

  • Law and Regulation
  • 29 September 2015
Bringing pension transfers into the 21st Century

Michael Klimes examines whether attempts to grease the wheels of pension transfers will succeed

  • Admin / Technology
  • 28 August 2015
TUC welcomes tax relief green paper

The government's green paper on tax relief has been welcomed by the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

  • Employee Benefits
  • 20 August 2015
TUC welcomes tax relief green paper

The government's green paper on tax relief has been welcomed by the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

  • Law and Regulation
  • 19 August 2015
Changing tack on pension tax relief would be a disincentive to save

Flipping tax relief would undermine the pension system, not reinforce it

  • Law and Regulation
  • 16 July 2015
Why the industry fears 'ISA pensions'

Industry responds to wide-ranging consultation

  • Industry
  • 09 July 2015
Summer Budget: The announcements in full

A list of the key pension announcements in the summer Budget

  • Industry
  • 09 July 2015
Tax relief green paper: A chance to sort pensions once and for all?

The pensions industry has welcomed the wide ranging consultation on pensions tax relief launched today, but warned of the dangers of conflating pensions and ISAs.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 08 July 2015
A cap on exit fees? The government must go much further

Why an upcoming consultation should look at the whole range of ‘unjustifiable costs’ heaped on savers

  • Law and Regulation
  • 24 June 2015
Resolution Foundation: help poor through pensions

Universal credit (UC) rules penalise those on low incomes making it harder for them to put money into pensions says the Resolution Foundation.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 08 June 2015
Ros Altmann must establish 'grand vision for saving'

New pensions minister Ros Altmann must continue with the package of bold reforms that her predecessor began and focus on encouraging a "rebirth of savings culture" in the UK, Michael Johnson has said.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 15 May 2015
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