Employee Assistance Programme provider Care first has joined the industry body Group Risk Development (Grid). With EAPs increasingly becoming an integral part of group risk products, Care first says it is looking...
The idea of a Government- sponsored web-based pension planning tool has been around for quite some time. Back in the early noughties Labour’s DWP secretary of state Andrew Smith outlined an online planner,...
The Pensions Regulator has confirmed that two L&G master trusts have now gained authorisation. Legal & General WorkSave Mastertrust, and Legal & General Worksave Mastertrust (RAS) become the second and third trusts...
Unum is enhancing its Employee Assistance Programme which is available to all group income protection, critical illness and group life customers. This EAP will now offer a range of additional health and...
For the first time, a prosecution brought by The Pension Regulator has resulted in an immediate custodial sentence. In February Roger Bessent - a pension trustee - was convicted on to five...
The Government is facing calls from the pensions industry to reform auto-enrolment contribution rules, to help boost overall levels of pension savings. These calls come as the AE minimum contribution levels are...
Discussing these issues are: Sharon Bellingham, Hymans Robertson Will Aitken, Deloitte Kim Nash, PTL Robert Cochran, Scottish Widows. Chaired by Corporate Adviser editor John Greenwood
The average income received by pensioners fell last year, according to figures published by the Department of Work and Pensions. Its retirement income statistics show that the average weekly income for all...
New research shows that retirees' biggest concern about utilising pension freedoms is running out of money, with more than half favouring risk reduction over generating higher returns. It is now almost four...
The FCA’s Retirement Outcomes Review aims to address concerns that people won’t manage their money sensibly within pension freedoms and could end up making a mess of their retirement. So what are...
