Current news

January 2019

Pension cold-calling ban comes into effect

On 9 January the Government’s ban on cold calling came into effect. Cold-calling has been used by scammers to steal pension savings or to persuade people to invest in high-risk ...


December 2018

Five fold increase in people seeking information about pension scams

Following an awareness campaign in the summer by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Pensions Regulator (TPR) there has been a huge increase in people visiting the FCA...


November 2018

GMP equalisation

On 26 October 2018, the High Court gave its judgment on the Lloyds case which concerned whether (and, potentially, how) members’ benefits should be adjusted to remove inequaliti...


September 2018

Petition to save Pensions Dashboard reaches over 100,000 signatures

It was announced in the 2016 Budget that a Pensions Dashboard would be developed, with the expectation of being launched in 2019. It is hoped that this will allow individuals to...


August 2018

Tackling pension scams

According to a recent survey undertaken by the Financial Conduct Authority, as many as one in four people in the UK have been targeted by pension or investment scammers in the l...


May 2018

New data protection regulation from 25 May 2018

You will no doubt be aware that the new data protection regulation - General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR – is coming into effect on 25 May 2018. The Trustee holds informa...