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    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Toby Nangle
      The government must not make the Pensions Regulator a lame duck

      Politicians should not forget that we all have a stake in a functioning pensions market

      Liz Truss addresses parliament from the speaker box
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Pensions
      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
      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

    • 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

    • 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
      Pensions
      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
    • 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

      A group of people looking out over a general view of the City of London skyline
    • 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

    • 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

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    • 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
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      Markets InsightToby Nangle
      Why bigger pension funds are better for the UK

      There might not be a correlation between size and performance but there is a case for consolidation

      Jeremy Hunt
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      John Ralfe
      Interest rates and pensions: good news and bad

      Company schemes look more secure — but annual increase caps hit defined benefit payouts

      An illustration of a female in a blue power suit opening an umbrella. She stands amid contrasting sunny and stormy weather conditions
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      FT Money personal finance guides
      FT Money guide: What can we learn from the UK’s £11mn pension saver?

      Investors with substantial retirement pots have much to worry about ahead of a general election

    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Send us your pension questions

      Put your queries about pensions and retirements to expert panel including Sir Steve Webb

      Pound coins sit on a dictionary entry for the word ‘pension’
    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      Helen Thomas
      These superfund zombies won’t take over the pensions market

      For-profit superfunds raise concerns about regulatory arbitrage but the need for them is much reduced after market changes

    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      Pensions industry
      UK pension funds must broaden investments, new regulator warns

      Trustees should consider best interests of savers or face ‘robust’ intervention, says Nausicaa Delfas

    • Sunday, 23 July, 2023
      Martin Wolf
      The government needs to be far bolder on pension reform

      Jeremy Hunt recognises the failings of the current system but his ‘Mansion House compact’ fails to address them

      Jeremy Hunt, the UK chancellor, delivers his Mansion House speech
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      UK tax
      Government plans to scrap income tax benefits for inherited pensions

      Proposals follow April’s axing of lifetime allowance

      HM Treasury building in Westminster
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Universities Superannuation Scheme
      UK universities set to secure big cut in pensions bill

      Universities Superannuation Scheme records a surplus after more than a decade in deficit due to sharp rise in interest rates

      A student walks in the campus of Glasgow university
    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      Sarah O'Connor
      Some people need to be nudged into saving

      Successful trials in the UK are a useful reminder of the protective power of the ‘rainy day fund’

      FT montage image showing coins dropping into a piggy bank
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Moira O'Neill
      How to opt out of Hunt’s risky plans for your pension

      Your money will be in peril in UK private equity boost scheme

    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      Pension Protection Fund
      UK employers’ insurance levy payments to fall as pension rescue scheme prospers

      Pension Protection Fund reserves exceed shortfall of the plans it protects for the first time

      Private pension pay advice slips
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      UK politics
      Funding public sector pay rises means trade-offs Tories cannot stomach

      British politics is stuck as long as spending cuts and further government borrowing are off the table

      Striking junior doctors, civil servants and teachers attend a rally at Trafalgar Square in London, UK, on March 15, 2023
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