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Hope William-Smith is the News Editor at Professional Pensions. She joined the magazine in 2019 from Money Marketing where she covered investment, pensions, and financial advice news on the retail side of the market. Hope started work as a cadet at The International Business Times in Sydney and was Features Editor at FEFundInfo in Australia before relocating to the UK. She remains interested in the retirement, pensions and superannuation space in Australia and its similarities and differences to the UK market. Hope was shortlisted for Headline Money’s Rising Star of the Year Award as well as the Financial Health and Life Insurance Journalist of the Year Award in 2019.She graduated from the University of New South Wales in 2015 with a Master of Law, Media and Journalism. Prior to that, she completed a BA in Government and International Political Relations at the University of Sydney.

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'Intrinsic bias' in DC pension system drives wedge into savings disparity
  • Pensions
'Intrinsic bias' in DC pension system drives wedge into savings disparity

'Stark gender disparity'

  • 31 March 2021
Covid-19 leaves schemes overestimating pension liabilities by up to 3.5% - research
  • Pensions
Covid-19 leaves schemes overestimating pension liabilities by up to 3.5% - research

The full impact of the Covid-19 pandemic means many defined benefit (DB) schemes will have now overestimated the life expectancies of their members, research suggests.

  • 24 March 2021
DWP hands out funding boost of £400,000 in retirement savings mid-life MOT trials
  • Retirement
DWP hands out funding boost of £400,000 in retirement savings mid-life MOT trials

Schemes that help savers with later life planning as part of a government trial will receive a £400,000 funding boost, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has revealed.

  • 19 March 2021
MP links FSCS levy spike to pensions freedom rapid roll out
  • Retirement
MP links FSCS levy spike to pensions freedom rapid roll out

Worried by policy change

  • 24 February 2021
Scottish Widows targets net-zero across £170bn fund range by 2050
  • Investment
Scottish Widows targets net-zero across £170bn fund range by 2050

Aims to halve its carbon footprint by 2030

  • 08 February 2021
LV= confirms demutualisation with sale of pensions and insurance business to Bain Capital
  • Pensions
LV= confirms demutualisation with sale of pensions and insurance business to Bain Capital

£530m

  • 15 December 2020
Covid-19 induces highest November mortality rates in ten years
  • Pensions
Covid-19 induces highest November mortality rates in ten years

CMI data

  • 09 December 2020
MPs jeopardising pension security without further bill amendments - Ros Altmann
  • Pensions
MPs jeopardising pension security without further bill amendments - Ros Altmann

Pension Schemes Bill due to be debated

  • 16 November 2020
Two-in-three DB sponsors issue profit warnings in 2020
  • Retirement
Two-in-three DB sponsors issue profit warnings in 2020

90% relate to Covid-19

  • 26 October 2020
Appoint a minister for scam prevention, government urged
  • Your profession
Appoint a minister for scam prevention, government urged

The government should consider handing to a minister the specific responsibility for tackling the growing number of scams across the finance sector, AJ Bell says.

  • 12 October 2020
Pension Schemes Bill will be law by the end of the year
  • Retirement
Pension Schemes Bill will be law by the end of the year

'Pecking order'

  • 16 September 2020
Schemes face 'multi-million pound' dashboard compliance bill
  • Retirement
Schemes face 'multi-million pound' dashboard compliance bill

Pensions schemes will face significant additional working costs reaching into the millions of pounds to prepare their data for the pensions dashboard, according to Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP).

  • 26 August 2020
Aegon Asset Management set to complete Kames Capital rebrand
  • Your profession
Aegon Asset Management set to complete Kames Capital rebrand

Branding shake-up

  • 04 August 2020
TPO: Just 5% of investigations need an ombudsman decision
  • Retirement
TPO: Just 5% of investigations need an ombudsman decision

Transfers most complained about

  • 20 July 2020
'Busy summer ahead' as pensions dashboard project gathers pace
  • Pensions
'Busy summer ahead' as pensions dashboard project gathers pace

PP Live events

  • 15 July 2020
Ombudsman warns Work and Pensions Committee over Covid-19 scams 'inundation'
  • Retirement
Ombudsman warns Work and Pensions Committee over Covid-19 scams 'inundation'

£5m lost to fraud between February and June

  • 09 July 2020
Government suffers defeats in House of Lords over Pension Schemes Bill
  • Retirement
Government suffers defeats in House of Lords over Pension Schemes Bill

Amendments to the Pension Schemes Bill passed by peers in the House of Lords last night will see a wide-ranging suite of reforms for the pensions industry draw another step closer.

  • 01 July 2020
Transfer figures soar as £10bn leaves DB schemes in three months
  • Retirement
Transfer figures soar as £10bn leaves DB schemes in three months

'Intense scrutiny'

  • 01 July 2020
TPR set to tighten regulatory grip as it unveils latest corporate plan
  • Retirement
TPR set to tighten regulatory grip as it unveils latest corporate plan

Support for DB schemes

  • 29 June 2020
FCA launches workplace pensions value for money consultation
  • Regulation
FCA launches workplace pensions value for money consultation

Joint strategy with TPR

  • 24 June 2020
Maps lays down response to Covid-19 pensions impact in 10-year strategy
  • Retirement
Maps lays down response to Covid-19 pensions impact in 10-year strategy

The Money and Pensions Service (Maps) has a “critical role to play” in the UK’s economic recovery from coronavirus, it says in a ten-year corporate plan released today.

  • 16 June 2020
LV= considering selling remaining pensions and insurance business
  • Your profession
LV= considering selling remaining pensions and insurance business

LV= is exploring the sale of its remaining life and pensions operations, Sky News has reported.

  • 12 June 2020
FCA called to do more to protect DB and DC members from scams
  • Retirement
FCA called to do more to protect DB and DC members from scams

The Pension Scams Industry Group (PSIG) has called on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to consider further interventions to protect pension scheme members from scams.

  • 11 June 2020
Lords pensions bill amendment could confirm single dashboard approach
  • Retirement
Lords pensions bill amendment could confirm single dashboard approach

Clause 122

  • 10 June 2020
Fraud losses from coronavirus scams hit £5m mark
  • Your profession
Fraud losses from coronavirus scams hit £5m mark

11,000 scams

  • 05 June 2020
Firefighters launch fresh legal battle against government pension benefits
  • Retirement
Firefighters launch fresh legal battle against government pension benefits

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has filed court proceedings over the government’s withholding of improved pension benefits for its employers, citing it a ‘dirty trick’.

  • 28 April 2020
Coronavirus-driven capacity crunch to leave DB members flailing
  • Retirement
Coronavirus-driven capacity crunch to leave DB members flailing

Advisers leaving market

  • 03 April 2020
Alternatives and ESG floundering in DC investment
  • Retirement
Alternatives and ESG floundering in DC investment

Aon research

  • 26 March 2020
Five to ten years 'reasonable' for pension coronavirus recovery
  • Pensions
Five to ten years 'reasonable' for pension coronavirus recovery

DC schemes feeling the pinch

  • 18 March 2020
Parliamentary group launches to step up action on pension scams
  • Retirement
Parliamentary group launches to step up action on pension scams

The new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Pension Scams has had its inaugural meeting in parliament to outline its priorities for boosting public awareness around scam risks.

  • 17 March 2020
'Draconian penalties' promised for schemes with poor dashboard data
  • Retirement
'Draconian penalties' promised for schemes with poor dashboard data

Pensions and financial inclusion minister Guy Opperman has warned schemes who do not have their data organised to the standard required for the pensions dashboard will face “draconian penalties.”

  • 13 March 2020
Maps names industry leaders for financial wellbeing initiative
  • Retirement
Maps names industry leaders for financial wellbeing initiative

The Money and Pensions Service (Maps) has named 12 sector leaders as challenge group chairs to spearhead its newly launched strategy for financial wellbeing.

  • 27 February 2020
Tax hikes vital to meet govt spending promises, says IFS
  • Tax planning
Tax hikes vital to meet govt spending promises, says IFS

Taxes will have to increase after the March Budget if the government plans to honour the spending plans in outlined last year, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned.

  • 26 February 2020
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