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    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Japan
      Japan government pension acts on population strain

      World’s largest retirement fund turns to data science in hunt for higher returns

      The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) logo is displayed on a brochure
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Moral Money
      France pushes ‘new vision’ for development finance  Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, ExxonMobil pension fund fined over climate disclosures

      The AFD’s headquarters building
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Workplace pensions
      Peering at Eton’s £100mn bet

      Floreat hedge fundi

    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Pensions
      UK savers continue to raid pensions as inflation takes its toll

      £4bn withdrawn between April and June this year

      Workers walking to work with the City of London in the background
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      LexVanessa Houlder
      The Lex Newsletter: finally, final salary pensions weaken their grip Premium content

      Changes in interest rates, inflation and life expectancy have propelled more schemes into surplus

      A Wincanton logistics facility in Northamptonshire
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Toby Nangle
      The government must not make the Pensions Regulator a lame duck

      Politicians should not forget that we all have a stake in a functioning pensions market

      Liz Truss addresses parliament from the speaker box
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Phoenix Group Holdings PLC
      Phoenix takes stake in Hambro Perks in push to invest pensions in private companies

      The UK government is encouraging more retirement savings into higher-growth areas

      A person holds a smartphone with a Hambro Perks logo on it in front of a computer screen
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Pensions
      Rollout of auto enrolled pensions for under-22s likely in 2025

      Government set to launch a consultation on key policy change

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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Soumaya Keynes
      How to save your state pension

      Means testing in the UK is not inevitable — this is the way to push back

      Illustration of a bird in a nest
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Pensions industry
      Truell mothballs Pension SuperFund after watchdog inaction

      The UK’s first commercial pension consolidator made three attempts at regulatory approval

      The City of London skyline
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Pension Protection Fund
      Employers call for changes to UK pension lifeboat levy

      Backlash from business as Pension Protection Fund’s reserves swell to more than £12bn

    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Pensions
      Teenagers to benefit from workplace pension age changes

      Auto-enrolment reforms agreed by Parliament

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    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      UK insurance industry
      UK insurer Phoenix hails boost to retirement sector from high inflation

      Chief executive says UK economic environment is ‘accelerating our growth’

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    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The case for retiring Britain’s triple lock on pensions

      Linking payments to earnings growth is fairer and more sustainable

      Older people dancing. The question of how much pensioners ought to be protected is a political one
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Is the state pension really ‘a Ponzi scheme’?

      The triple lock makes it impossible for government — and individuals — to estimate the cost of retirement

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      UK economy
      UK government weighs change to ‘triple lock’ to limit pension increase

      Ministers look at a rise in line with earnings excluding bonuses — below the headline 8.5% rate

      Rishi Sunak speaking in the House of Commons
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      State pension triple lock
      Sunak refuses pensions ‘triple lock’ commitment for Tory manifesto

      Premier risks backlash from MPs fearful of alienating older voters in general election

      Rishi Sunak speaks to the media during the G20 summit in New Delhi
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Confederation of British Industry
      CBI pension scheme holds up merger with Make UK

      Manufacturers’ lobby group does not want to inherit retirement scheme

      The CBI HQ
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Pensions
      How to solve your million pound pension problem

      What’s the outlook for financing your retirement? FT readers and our expert panel debate the most pressing issues

      The FT Weekend Festival’s pension session. Claer Barrett with David Goodfellow, Nimesh Shah and Steve Webb
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      UK politics
      UK Treasury braced for 8% rise in pensions because of triple lock

      Retirees’ incomes boosted by more than workers’ as state payment exceeds inflation

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      LexNathalie Thomas
      The Lex Newsletter: using pensions to lift markets has repressive ring Premium content

      Any switch to compulsory investment in the UK would set klaxons blaring for lawyers and trustees of schemes

      A group of people looking out over a general view of the City of London skyline
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      BAE Systems PLC
      BAE Systems’ pension scheme awards £23bn mandate to Goldman Sachs

      Outsourcing deal is the largest of its kind in the UK to date

      A BAE howitzer on display at an exhibition
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Fund management
      Jeremy Hunt’s pension plunder plan is bad business

      Big ideas for DB pensions look more harmful than helpful

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Charlotte Ransom
      Financial ingredients for the ‘sandwich generation’

      People helping adult children and elderly parents should first check their own needs

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
      Can we sell my husband’s flat without paying capital gains tax?

      We live together in my property and he uses his old flat as an office

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