Focus Oxford has seven registered individuals and been in existence for 27 years, offering advice to individuals and corporates across pensions, investments, mortgages and life assurance. PSA says the deal will give...
Speaking at a seminar in Madrid today, Crook set out the challenging market dynamics facing GIP providers, who have seen the cost of delivering GIP benefits go up by 15 per cent...
Lesley Titcomb, chief executive of The Pension Regulator, who has been targeted with criticism by MPs over the regulator’s handling of BHS and Carillion, is to step down, Titcomb will step down...
Called HUB Pension Solutions, the new business delivers offers a digital platform that enables financial advisers providing advice to support scheme transfer exercises to generate transfer value analysis for individual scheme members...
The circular set out plans for SLA and Phoenix to work together to maintain and develop workplace propositions under the Standard Life brand. Phoenix will maintain the Stanplan master trust. It also...
FOS’s annual report shows there were 2,051 Sipp complaints in the year 2017/18, up from 1,493 in the previous year. Personal pension plan complaints by contrast fell 38 per cent, down from...
Next month the Department for Work and Pensions will outline tentative plans on the best way for UK pension schemes to consider “social impact” factors when making investment decisions. The publication –...
Any exposure to gold may seem alien to an advised portfolio. The metal pays no income and distributes no earnings. Gold does so little, in fact, that it doesn’t even rust. Yet...
As the government nudges millions of Britons into master trust pension schemes, trustees are taking on an unprecedented level of responsibilty. For Andy Cheseld- ine, now a professional trustee at Capital Cranfield,...
For advisers looking to deliver value for their clients and grow their business, the international stage is where it’s at. The number of multinationals is growing apace, as is the widening pool...
