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Hope William-Smith

Hope William-Smith

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Hope William-Smith is editor at Professional Adviser. She first joined Incisive Media as news editor of Professional Pensions in 2019 before becoming deputy editor in 2022. Hope was highly commended for Willis Towers Watson's DB Journalist of the Year in 2021, and shortlisted for Headline Money’s Rising Star of the Year and Financial Health and Life Insurance Journalist of the Year awards 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 Politics and International Relations at the University of Sydney. Outside of work, she enjoys playing sports, learning languages, and travelling.

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Articles by Hope William-Smith

Retirement

NHS staff breaching annual allowance reach for scheme pay options

38% with scheme pays option breached AA

clock 24 May 2021 • 2 min read

Regulation

TPR and FCA join forces to improve pension saving outcomes

'Seismic shift'

clock 18 May 2021 • 3 min read

Pensions

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

'Stark gender disparity'

clock 31 March 2021 • 4 min read

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.

clock 24 March 2021 • 2 min read

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.

clock 19 March 2021 • 1 min read

Retirement

MP links FSCS levy spike to pensions freedom rapid roll out

Worried by policy change

clock 24 February 2021 • 2 min read

Investment

Scottish Widows targets net-zero across £170bn fund range by 2050

Aims to halve its carbon footprint by 2030

clock 08 February 2021 • 3 min read

Pensions

LV= confirms demutualisation with sale of pensions and insurance business to Bain Capital

£530m

clock 15 December 2020 • 2 min read

Pensions

Covid-19 induces highest November mortality rates in ten years

CMI data

clock 09 December 2020 • 2 min read

Pensions

MPs jeopardising pension security without further bill amendments - Ros Altmann

Pension Schemes Bill due to be debated

clock 16 November 2020 • 3 min read