All Society of Pension Professionals articles – Page 5

  • News

    Advice requirement rules could spell end to consumer confusion

    2016-09-30T00:00:00Z

    The Department for Work and Pensions last week issued a consultation on draft regulations aimed at simplifying the way safeguarded flexible benefits are valued in relation to the freedom and choice advice requirement.

  • Features

    Retirees avoid overspending yet more become insolvent

    2016-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Analysis: New figures suggest defined contribution savers reaching retirement might be overspending and increasing their risk of poverty in later years, but experts warn this could be a false alarm.

  • Hugh Nolan
    Opinion

    Can the industry make pensioners happy?

    2016-08-19T00:00:00Z

    In David Copperfield, Mr Micawber's recipe for happiness is simple: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds, nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”

  • News

    Select committee seeks views on expanding regulator powers

    2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

    The Work and Pensions Committee is to consider amending the powers of the Pensions Regulator and the make-up of the Pension Protection Fund as part of its ongoing inquiry into the Pension Protection Fund and the Pensions Regulator following the collapse of BHS.

  • Hugh Nolan
    Opinion

    Bad cases make bad law

    2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

    Allied Steel and Wire went into receivership in 2002, with some members at risk of only getting a fraction of their pension before the introduction of the Pension Protection Fund.