The Chancellor, a former shadow pensions minister, has labelled her proposals to shake-up the pensions industry a “big bang of reforms to unlock growth, boost investment and deliver savings for pensioners”.
She recently met with the heads of large pension providers like M&G, Legal & General, Phoenix and Aviva to thrash out the issue. Royal London supports the review, despite Mr O’Dwyer’s note of caution.
Ms Reeves last week launched a review to consider whether the UK’s £360bn of local council pensions should be combined into one single fund.
There are more than 80 individual taxpayer-backed pension funds across the UK and consolidating them into a single pot could be more cost effective.
Defined contribution (DC) pensions, the main type of workplace pension for millions, have boomed after the introduction of compulsory pensions known as auto-enrolment.
The value of DC schemes is expected to swell to around £800bn by 2030 and Ms Reeves’ review will explore ways to increase their investment into useful economic areas.
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