Savers withdrew £22.4bn in taxable flexible pension payments during 2025/26, up from £18.6bn in 2024/25 and £15.3bn in 2023/24, according to the latest HMRC statistics ...

Nine in 10 UK employees eligible for automatic enrolment (AE) were saving into a workplace pension in 2025, although opt-out rates have risen to around 11-12 per cent, Department for Work and Pensions ...

The Hickson UK Group Pension Scheme has completed a £208m bulk purchase annuity (BPA) transaction with Royal London. The deal, which finalised in June, secured the benefits of 1,250 scheme members and ...

The Aston Martin Lagonda Pension Scheme has completed a £180m full-scheme buy-in with Aviva, securing the benefits of around 1,590 members ...

Annuity rates hit 7.75 per cent in July 2026, the highest level in 18 years, according to the Standard Life Annuity Rate ...

The UK defined contribution (DC) market is entering a new phase as attention shifts from participation towards pension ...

A pension scheme sponsored by an unnamed UK insurance company has completed a £150m bulk purchase annuity (BPA) transaction through M&G’s ‘BPA Plus’ proposition ...

Housing Benefit rules can leave older renters retaining just 35p of every additional £1 of private pension income, weakening ...

Nearly two thirds (62 per cent) of pension professionals want the upcoming reforms to salary sacrifice on pension contributions to be scrapped, polling from the Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) ...

UK pension professionals are increasingly exploring emerging retirement solutions, with almost half looking at retirement ...

The Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has launched a practical governance framework to help pension scheme trustees ...

WTW has launched a streamlined longevity swap solution designed to make longevity hedging more accessible to defined benefit (DB) pension schemes with between £100m and £1bn of liabilities ...