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Pensions

  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    How I’m staying calm when markets are uncertain

    Are you buying the dip, battening down the hatches or carrying on as normal?

    Illustration of a small sailboat approaching a big wave made of arrows
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Pensions industry
    Trump chaos prompts big pension funds to cool on US

    Rethink comes as tariffs and talk of territorial expansion stoke market instability and geopolitical tension

    A montage of Canadian and Danish currency and colours
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    Personal Finance
    How to plan for retirement when markets are in turmoil

    Trump’s chaotic trade policy has caused many to question their pension strategy — FT Money went looking for answers

    Illustration of a woman walking her dog in stormy weather
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Two council pension ‘pools’ forced to merge as UK ratchets up overhaul

    Industry says reforms have been rushed and warns of cost pressures

    People walk past the main entrance to HM Treasury in Westminster, London
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    AustralianSuper says US remains best place to invest overseas

    Market chaos unleashed by tariffs has not dimmed America’s appeal, says superannuation fund CIO

    Mark Delaney
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    Retirement
    Reader callout: Is the tariff turmoil affecting your retirement plans?

    FT Money wants to hear from readers worried about the impact on their pension pot

    Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    Pension Protection Fund
    UK ‘superfund’ Clara Pensions to invest more than £3bn into private markets

    Move is a boost to government attempts to help kick-start growth in British economy

    The Clara Pensions website
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Should young people raid their pensions to buy a property?

    Allowing Gen Z early access to retirement savings is not going to build more houses

    Illustration of a hand smashing a piggy bank with a hammer with a house
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Pensions industry
    Pension Protection Fund vows to invest more in ‘juicy’ UK assets

    Britain’s £32bn lifeboat scheme says it will invest in infrastructure and scale-up companies if allowed to grow

    Pension Protection Fund chief executive Michelle Ostermann and Kate Jones, its chair
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    InterviewPensions industry
    Dutch pensions to invest €100bn in risky assets boosting Europe’s defence efforts

    APG boss says largest part of investment to be within bloc owing to ‘attractive valuations’

    APG Asset Management chief executive Ronald Wuijster
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    ‘Wild loophole’ allows non-UK residents to apply for full state pension

    From Ireland to Australia, press and social media posts encourage take-up of UK state pensions

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  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    InterviewNest Corp.
    Nest pension fund says pledge to invest 30% in private markets ‘not guaranteed’

    State-backed retirement scheme will not compromise on value to meet target

    Nest chief investment officer Liz Fernando
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Should Brits brace for tax rises in the Autumn Budget?

    No tax changes in the Spring Statement, but if the search for growth proves fruitless they’ll soon be back on the agenda

    Illustration of hands holding shears cutting flowers still in bud against a darkening sky
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
    Inheritance
    How to gift your way to a lower inheritance tax bill

    As IHT bills hit a record high, financial planners recommend consumers plan before the rules change from 2027

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  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Personal Finance
    The madness of the £100,000 childcare tax trap

    With some parents requiring a 50 per cent pay rise to mitigate the effects of the threshold, the trap is zapping productivity

    Illustration of an impossible loop with people running, baby bottles and toys, and work objects like a laptop and headphones
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Office for National Statistics UK
    ONS change to pension valuation is ‘fundamentally flawed’, think-tank says

    Institute for Fiscal Studies accuses official statisticians of ‘jumbled economic reasoning’, in latest setback for agency

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  • Sunday, 16 March, 2025
    Pensions industry
    Pension funds do not take ‘enough risk’, says UK wealth fund executive

    Ian Brown of NWF says managers need to back infrastructure projects before construction under wider net zero push

    Ian Brown wants greater investment by pension funds in green projects, such as wind turbines
  • Saturday, 15 March, 2025
    Annuities
    Joint-life annuity rates at 17-year high

    Income offered on retirement products highest since global financial crisis

    An older couple walking on a hillside
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Moira O'Neill
    Even A-list actors couldn’t convince us to green our pensions

    Filmmaker Richard Curtis’s campaign has bitten the dust — an unfortunately predictable ending

    Illustration of a wind turbine, Richard Curtis, money, a pie chart, a dying plant and a ladder
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    UK politics
    UK minister in ‘active discussions’ with pension funds to invest more in private markets

    Torsten Bell says government is ‘encouraging, not instigating’ investment in wider range of assets

    Torsten Bell
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Rana Foroohar
    What will Trump mean for personal wealth?

    Pension funds, retail investors and money managers are worrying about the future of American capital markets

    Matt Kenyon illustration of a broken jar on a shelf with gold coins falling out of the crack as an exasperated figure looks on
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Pensions industry
    UK pension funds stand by defence exclusion in ‘ethical’ funds

    Nest and People’s Pension push back against call by Labour MPs and peers to re-categorise companies

    A Rheinmetall Caracal Air Assault vehicle
  • Saturday, 8 March, 2025
    Stephen Bush
    How to stop the fruitless search for welfare savings

    Governments chase illusory short-term cuts when what’s needed are routes back into lasting employment

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of scissors cutting paper people collage out of pound notes
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    Isa Guide 2025
    Are Lisas fit for purpose for homebuyers?

    MPs review the effectiveness of the much-criticised savings scheme

    A couple look in the window of an estate agent
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    Pensions industry
    Pensions minister says schemes must invest more in UK

    Torsten Bell says optimising outcomes is deeply compatible with backing Britain

    Torsten Bell
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