Pensions

I am naturally wary of calling the FSA’s guidance consultation document - Assessing Suitability - one of the most significant regulatory statements of the year just yet, but it must be amongst...

The ABI has just announced various process improvements to the open market option, but the fact is these incremental improvements to the OMO are focusing on the wrong problem.The the real issue...

CV RACHEL REEVESCareer- Labour MP for Leeds West since May 2010 election- Labour shadow minister of state for the Department for Work and Pensions- Economist at the Bank of England and at...

No analogy is perfect, but we know the process will take four years from 2012 and 2016, and when it gets to firms with less than 50 employees, the times are staged...

The big danger is that while it may be easier to compare the likely returns on different funds with the same provider, it could become more difficult to compare the prospective returns...

Phasing out the default retirement age and allowing employees to remain in the workforce beyond age 65 has implications for many employee benefits.But while group risk benefits such as income protection would...

Steve Bridger, head of group risk at Aviva The Government’s radical welfare reform agenda has huge potential to improve the working life for UK employees. The ability to claw back money lost...

The introduction of auto-enrolment is creeping up fast. Getting ready for the changes is now critical, particularly as it will be landing around the same time as the introduction of the Retail...

Funnily enough, such whines are thin on the ground when markets are rising. But the minute the current financial crisis broke, the sound of collapsing banks was almost drowned by wailing investors...