In this week’s Pensions Buzz, we want to know if you support the chancellor’s move to include pensions in inheritance tax, as announced last week in the Autumn Budget.

Setting aside the run-on vs buyout debate, this still leaves a vast amount of potential risk settlement transactions for insurers to navigate over the coming decade (s?). Interestingly, of this c£250 ...

Auto-enrolment (AE) has been really successful with over 11 million more people saving for retirement since 2012 - one of the biggest and most successful strategic changes in pension policy.

Legal & General (L&G) and the trustees of the L&G Master Trust have expanded the scope of the board’s Taskforce for ...

Defined benefit (DB) schemes will need to plan ahead to avoid delays on their journey from buy-in, to buyout and wind-up, ...

An unnamed scheme has become the first in the UK to complete an allocation to Bitcoin.

Mercer has competed its acquisition of Cardano.

The Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has formed a joint venture with housing “place maker” Muse and government housing and regeneration agency Homes England.

The full scheme deal – completed in March – secures the benefits for 24 pensioners and 15 deferred members. K3 Advisory advised on the transaction, while Cartwright provided actuarial, administr ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is understood to be preparing to use her maiden Mansion House speech to set out plans to overhaul Britain’s pension fund industry, an article in the Sunday Times says.

The Budget announcement that inheritance tax (IHT) will apply on pensions from 2027 could make annuities more popular, a retirement specialist has predicted.

Pensions and death benefits passed on will be subject to inheritance tax (IHT) from 2027, with both defined contribution and ...