Pensions

On 11 June 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a new webpage setting out examples of good practice and potential areas for improvement for firms providing retirement income advice.

Background

The webpage explains that, following its thematic review of retirement income advice, the FCA wanted to provide a short ‘bite-sized’ article to

On 24 April 2025, the Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) published a report on personal pension providers’ readiness for pensions dashboards.

Background

The PDP explains that Ipsos carried out an online survey of Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulated pension providers to understand how they are preparing to connect to the pensions dashboards

On 18 March 2025, the draft Pension Fund Clearing Obligation Exemption (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (the draft Regulations) were published on legislation.gov.uk, along with a draft explanatory memorandum.

The draft Regulations relate to the temporary exemption which pension scheme arrangements (i.e. pension funds) currently have from the clearing obligation, which requires them to clear

On 28 February 2025, the House of Commons (HoC) Work and Pensions Committee announced that it would hold an evidence session to examine progress towards delivering online pensions dashboards, which are intended to enable individuals to find information on all of their pension pots and their value in one place.

While it is