Budget – Opinions split on effect of contracting out ban on employers offering DB by Corporate Adviser March 23, 2011 The effect of Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget indication that contracting out for defined benefit schemes is to come to an...
Working party publishes broad consultancy charging guidelines, but detail left to advisers by Corporate Adviser March 17, 2011 The group, set up by the FSA and overseen by the Society of Pension Consultants, has identified four key principles...
GPPs may be exempt from ECJ gender ruling – Skandia by Corporate Adviser March 3, 2011 The directive states that it is only to relate to insurance and pensions that are ’private, voluntary and separate from...
DWP and Treasury on verge of deal on flat-rate pension – contracted-out to get less by Corporate Adviser March 3, 2011 Pensions minister Steve Webb is understood to have finalised the details of the policy, which is designed to remove the...
DWP research into vesting rules shows schemes defaulting leavers out by Corporate Adviser March 2, 2011 The research, carried out as the DWP grapples with the question of whether to outlaw early vesting refunds for occupational...
Increase in over 65s still in work, despite the recession – ONS by Corporate Adviser March 2, 2011 In 2001, around 412,000 people aged 65 and over were in work, rising to 870,000 in the last quarter of...
ACA at odds with NAPF and fund managers as it supports pension early access by Corporate Adviser March 2, 2011 Responding to the Treasury’s consultation on early access, the Investment Management Association says rather than increase participation and contribution levels,...
ECJ gender ruling – pensions industry reeling at lower incomes and uncertain future by Corporate Adviser March 1, 2011 But the PMI and group risk sectors are expected to be largely unaffected by the change because they usually underwrite...
Standard launches Lifelens benefits portal with 10 blue chip employers by Corporate Adviser March 1, 2011 IBM is the first of 10 blue chip clients signed up to Lifeline to go live in 2011, with Standard...
Hat-trick for Bluefin at Corporate Adviser Awards 2011 by Corporate Adviser February 10, 2011 Nick Burns, chief executive of Bluefin, took home the Firm of the Year award for the third year running, along...
