Aviva putting £10bn pension cash into green investments

Aviva to funnel £10bn of workers’ pension money into climate-friendly investments as it unveils plan to become net zero by 2040 Aviva is committing a ‘substantial’ portion of the money it collects from auto-enrolment pension funds to investments which tackle climate change Every employee over the age of 22 who earns more than £10,000 per year … Read more

Why you mustn’t let anything stop you saving into a pension

Some of the country’s leading financial experts are urging people to keep saving into a pension despite the tough economic backdrop By Rachel Rickard Straus, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 27 February 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 27 February 2021 Some of the country’s leading financial experts are urging people to keep saving … Read more

Swimmer who represented Great Britain is homeless because she ‘can’t access her pension’

Swimmer, 64, who represented Great Britain is homeless and living in graveyard because she ‘can’t access her pension’ Laraine McHendrie Decaire, 64, is homeless living outside a church in London She represented Great Britain in national swimming competitions in the 1980s Laraine says she paid into a pension since she was 14 but has been … Read more

Pension lifetime allowance: Will the rates be frozen?

The Chancellor is hoping to save £250million a year by curbing pension tax breaks for better-off workers, according to reports on his plans for next week’s Budget. Rishi Sunak is considering freezing the lifetime allowance, the total amount you can pay into a pension and still get tax relief, at £1,073,100 for the rest of … Read more

Money-saving expert Martin Lewis reveals easy trick to work out how much to put into your pension

Are YOU putting enough money in your pension pot? Martin Lewis reveals quick trick for calculating how much you should set aside each year based on your age Martin Lewis appeared on ITV programme last night to give advice on pensions MoneySavingExpert shared ‘rule of thumb’ for how much of your salary to save You take the … Read more

The growing army who don’t want to give up work or touch their pension

There used to a tradition that when you hit retirement age, you’d get a gold watch from the company and head off to relax full-time. However, money advisers now say more and more pensioners are happy to keep on working – especially as they can do so from home. Experts say the virus crisis means … Read more

How can I find out if my civil service pension is invested ethically?

Could you please tell me how I find out how my pension is invested. I’m in the civil service pension scheme, and I’m interested how the money is invested, that it is not invested in fossil fuel industries and that it is invested ethically. I could not find any data on this. Could you send … Read more

Pension scam victims pay thousands to firm hired to rescue their cash 

Huge hit: David Rhodes was charged £90,000 to rescue his £157,000 pension from fraudsters Pension scam victims have lost millions of pounds more to the government-appointed trustees hired to get their money back. The Mail previously revealed how tens of thousands of savers had lost up to £10 billion in rogue schemes that looked safe because … Read more