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The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has said that more than 9,000 employer accounts have been added to NEST Connect in last 12 months, with 4,300 intermediaries having become connectors in that period

Welplan has become the latest occupational defined contribution master trust to obtain independent assurance.

Auto-enrolled defined contribution members in poorer-performing schemes could lose up to the equivalent of £500,000 over a lifetime.

Business in small self-administered schemes (SSAS) has increased sharply according to Xafinity, which has said that it has written the equivalent of a normal year's worth of business in this field in only six months.

The number of people claiming the state pension has nudged 13 million, the Department for Work & Pensions has said.

The Flood Re reinsurance scheme is due to take effect in April after floods minister Rory Stewart signed its regulations, following parliamentary approval. 

UK government spending on pensioners will be 19% higher by the end of the decade, widening a ‘gap in welfare provision’, according to an investigation by a think tank.

More than half of young motorists do not budget enough to pay for car insurance in their first year of driving, a survey has found.

Paying into an employer pension scheme is considered the safest way to invest for retirement, according to preliminary results of a survey published today.

The Met Office has launched a new set of maps to help analyse and price the risk incoming windstorms may have at a local level.