M&S chair Archie Norman blames pension funds for London stock market’s troubles June 9, 2024 City veteran Archie Norman has hit out at pension funds for not investing enough in UK companies, partially blaming them for the decline of London's stock market.
The unspoken truth about pensions May 29, 2024 Neither party is willing to face up to the fact that when it comes to state and public sector pensions, there really is no money left, says James Price General elections really ought to be a platform from which the seismic, structural challenges facing our country are debated. Governments need fresh mandates if they are [...]
General Election 2024: Why Sunak’s ‘triple lock plus’ pledge is not all as it seems May 28, 2024 Sunak's announcement will guarantee that pensioners’ personal allowance will always be higher than the level of the new state pension.
Pensionbee makes steady progress on major US expansion plans May 24, 2024 Pensionbee says it has made steady progress on its plans to expand into the US as it looks to tap into the world’s largest defined contribution pension market.
Norton Motorcycles: Losses continue to mount at iconic brand May 20, 2024 Losses continued to widen at Norton Motorcycles in the fourth year since being rescued out of administration.
Why do politicians put up with insults from pensioners? May 20, 2024 You’d expect the Prime Minister to be thick-skinned but when he has expended so much literal and political capital on pensioners only to be accused of hating them you wonder how he keeps his cool, says Joseph Dinnage Being a frontline politician, particularly in the age of the keyboard pundit, is not a job for [...]
Here’s how to get Gen Z interested in their pensions May 18, 2024 Allowing employees to choose their pension provider and consolidate their contributions into one pot is popular with Gen Z who frequently move jobs and could help them be more financially secure in the future, Says Niamh O Regan By and large, people choose their own financial products. Who to bank with, where to lodge their [...]
Janet Street-Porter embodies this country’s pensioner problem May 17, 2024 Where on earth does Loose Women's Janet Street-Porter get the idea Rishi Sunak 'hates pensioners'? The entire Conservative agenda is built around appeasing this entitled generation and the rest of us are paying for it
Lift auto-enrolment pension contribution to 12 per cent for £10bn boost, report argues April 24, 2024 Auto pension enrolment was one of the key policy wins of the coalition era and essentially made employees automatically pay into their pension pots.
Billions vanish from retirement funds after pension providers shutter April 17, 2024 FSCS was able to pay back about £1.2bn in compensation over the last five years, meaning that investors were left with up to £800m in lost pension funds.