We have been hearing a lot lately about ‘Net Zero’ and the Government pledge to achieve this by 2050. You may ask what does a pledge to reduce carbon emissions have to do with pensions? Actually quite a lot...

As if trustees and sponsoring employers didn’t have enough on their plates dealing with the aftermath of Brexit and Covid 19, along comes the Pensions Act 2021 which has now received Royal Assent.

Now that the ‘Back to 60’ campaign has been consigned to the ‘failed’ box, it was probably only going to be a matter of time before a new scandal potentially affecting a cohort of women was going to ear it’s ugly head.

Pensions expert, Jennie Kreser is today featured in the Law Gazette’s article looking at lawyers in lockdown.

Today is an important one for those at risk of being defrauded out of their occupational pensions by cold calling scammers. From today, it will be illegal to cold call or text individuals to encourage them to transfer their safe and valuable pension into risky and usually fraudulent schemes.