April’s £1m pensions lifetime allowance poses serious questions about the tax efficiency of group life arrangements for high earners. This year’s Budget could make the situation even more uncertain, finds Edmund Tirbutt...
The master trust is tying up with Axa Self Investor for the Isa service, which will be made available from the Trust Pensions website or from the scheme portal. Investors will be...
Called Simply Class, the product, which is launched today, will be available to registered advisers on the provider’s Class platform. The launch coincides with the day auto-enrolment hits the 1.1 million sub-50...
Research amongst employers with up to 49 employees shows 55 per cent would consider offering other benefits when they set up auto-enrolment pensions, equating to almost 600,000 employers. The research, conducted on...
The company is split into numerous distinct divisions, and there are great issues within the company with regard to sharing knowledge of salaries within other divisions. Some divisions are also notoriously slow...
PTL also announced this week it would be offering a year’s free membership to new clients in the PTL GLMT.Richard Butcher, managing director at PTL commented, “Since 2010 we have also been...
John Ritchie, Ellipse Way back in October 1998, in the early optimistic years of the new Labour government, Alistair Darling spoke at a conference I helped to set up during my days...
Cover will be set up under the provider’s multi-employer trust, meaning employers will not need to register their own trust, andcover is therefore paid free of inheritance tax should an employee die...
Under new Government legislation due to be phased in over the next five years, employers will be obliged to enrol all staff into a qualifying pension scheme. A significant number of employers questioned...
Moxham: “Surely the Government has a role to play?” Almost half of companies without group life cover would consider implementing a policy when pensions auto-enrolment comes into force, according to research carried...
