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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Phoenix Group Holdings PLC
      Phoenix takes stake in Hambro Perks in push to invest pensions in private companies

      The UK government is encouraging more retirement savings into higher-growth areas

      A person holds a smartphone with a Hambro Perks logo on it in front of a computer screen
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Rollout of auto enrolled pensions for under-22s likely in 2025

      Government set to launch a consultation on key policy change

      Car mechanic balancing car wheels in an auto repair shop
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Soumaya Keynes
      How to save your state pension

      Means testing in the UK is not inevitable — this is the way to push back

      Illustration of a bird in a nest
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Pensions industry
      Truell mothballs Pension SuperFund after watchdog inaction

      The UK’s first commercial pension consolidator made three attempts at regulatory approval

      The City of London skyline
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Pension Protection Fund
      Employers call for changes to UK pension lifeboat levy

      Backlash from business as Pension Protection Fund’s reserves swell to more than £12bn

    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Teenagers to benefit from workplace pension age changes

      Auto-enrolment reforms agreed by Parliament

      A waitress in a cafe cutting a slice of cake
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      UK insurance industry
      UK insurer Phoenix hails boost to retirement sector from high inflation

      Chief executive says UK economic environment is ‘accelerating our growth’

      The city of London skyline
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The case for retiring Britain’s triple lock on pensions

      Linking payments to earnings growth is fairer and more sustainable

      Older people dancing. The question of how much pensioners ought to be protected is a political one
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Is the state pension really ‘a Ponzi scheme’?

      The triple lock makes it impossible for government — and individuals — to estimate the cost of retirement

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      UK economy
      UK government weighs change to ‘triple lock’ to limit pension increase

      Ministers look at a rise in line with earnings excluding bonuses — below the headline 8.5% rate

      Rishi Sunak speaking in the House of Commons
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      State pension triple lock
      Sunak refuses pensions ‘triple lock’ commitment for Tory manifesto

      Premier risks backlash from MPs fearful of alienating older voters in general election

      Rishi Sunak speaks to the media during the G20 summit in New Delhi
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Confederation of British Industry
      CBI pension scheme holds up merger with Make UK

      Manufacturers’ lobby group does not want to inherit retirement scheme

      The CBI HQ
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      How to solve your million pound pension problem

      What’s the outlook for financing your retirement? FT readers and our expert panel debate the most pressing issues

      The FT Weekend Festival’s pension session. Claer Barrett with David Goodfellow, Nimesh Shah and Steve Webb
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      UK politics
      UK Treasury braced for 8% rise in pensions because of triple lock

      Retirees’ incomes boosted by more than workers’ as state payment exceeds inflation

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      LexNathalie Thomas
      The Lex Newsletter: using pensions to lift markets has repressive ring Premium content

      Any switch to compulsory investment in the UK would set klaxons blaring for lawyers and trustees of schemes

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    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      BAE Systems PLC
      BAE Systems’ pension scheme awards £23bn mandate to Goldman Sachs

      Outsourcing deal is the largest of its kind in the UK to date

      A BAE howitzer on display at an exhibition
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Fund management
      Jeremy Hunt’s pension plunder plan is bad business

      Big ideas for DB pensions look more harmful than helpful

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Charlotte Ransom
      Financial ingredients for the ‘sandwich generation’

      People helping adult children and elderly parents should first check their own needs

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
      Can we sell my husband’s flat without paying capital gains tax?

      We live together in my property and he uses his old flat as an office

    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Pension Protection Fund pushes for new remit to boost UK investment

      Statutory public corporation says its role should be expanded so that it can manage healthy defined benefit schemes

      People walk over London Bridge
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
      Ontario Teachers’ fund acquires UK wealth manager 7IM

      Canadian pension fund agrees to buy holding from Caledonia Investments in roughly £450mn deal

      A view of Canary Wharf in the City of London
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Markets InsightWilliam Wright
      The right way to tackle the UK pensions and markets crisis

      Reforms are needed to enable the provision of a secure and comfortable retirement for millions of people

      Pedestrians walk along the riverfront in front of a view of the City of London business district in England
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Annuities
      Standard Life returns to the annuities market

      Product’s popularity has been reinvigorated as rates have increased

      A retirement age couple, walking by a beach
    • Saturday, 2 September, 2023
      Gender pension gap to remain for decades without action

      Women caring for children and elderly relatives continues to hit retirement income

      A woman walks past the Bank of England
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Annuities
      Would an annuity work for you?

      Check your personal circumstances, as what’s right for one person is not for another

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