The Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA), has released guidance on how to set up a pensions dashboard aimed at UK pension schemes, trustees and providers in readiness for the 2023 rollout 

The biggest overhaul of UK pensions for decades will see the introduction of civil penalties of up to £1m as the Pension Schemes Act 2021 is passed

Changes to the NHS pension scheme could boost retirement income for many NHS doctors, resulting in tax refunds on overpayments

Government pension liabilities were £6.4 trillion in 2018, representing an increase of 21% compared with 2015, according to the latest Office for National Statistics figures

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is consulting on proposed legislation requiring occupational pension schemes to improve their climate risk governance and reporting, which has come under fire from the sector’s regulator

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has banned a corporate trustee and one of its directors from acting as pension scheme trustees after multiple governance failures which it said highlighted a lack of competence, capability and integrity

The twin challenges of Brexit and Covid-19 have seen the FTSE 350 pension deficit nearly double during the year, with scheme trustees urged to look for opportunities to reduce risk

In a round-up of the biggest personal tax stories of the year, we look at all the non-coronavirus news, including a potential wealth tax, CGT charges on second home sales, ‘deliberate’ errors, fall in IHT receipts, buy-to-let tax hikes and pension tax relief admin discrepancy

Independent financial advice firm L J Financial Planning Ltd (LJFP) has been fined £107,200 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for providing its customers with unsuitable pension switching and transfer advice and failing to manage its conflicts of interest

Matt Smith and Dan Butters, together with other restructuring partners at Deloitte, have been appointed as joint administrators to the Arcadia Group Ltd, and various subsidiary companies, as part of a trading administration

FTSE 350 companies are coming under pressure from an influential shareholder pressure group to clamp down further on executive pension perks and to avoid pandemic-related pay uplifts in order to promote fairness and good employee relations

Deloitte has acquired the business and assets of the pension scheme administration and actuarial consultancy arm of Kerr Henderson Group – Kerr Henderson (Consultants and Actuaries) Ltd – in a bid to grow its pensions business