The core Governed Range offers nine risk-graded portfolios as well as a choice of fixed or flexible lifestyle strategies. The life office says it is particularly suited to IFAs who are interested...
The general tightening of budgets as a result of current economic conditions means that being able to present an employer with evidence of the ability to take significant costs out of their...
How does this sound for a proposition? Substantial life cover – often equivalent to up to four years’ salary or even higher. Up to around three-quarters of your salary for as long...
After 18 years with Hewitt, Andy Cox could be forgiven for wishing he had ascended to the role of managing director for the UK and Ireland at Hewitt Associates at a slightly...
The financial crisis may have made defined benefit schemes’ deficits rocket but many companies trying to offload their liabilities are finding their hands are tied by a pensions buyout market that has...
This year could see the government finally have to face up to demands the industry has been making for years in terms of sharing of risk between employers and members of final...
Multi-manager funds would seem to be the panacea for people without the inclination or time to invest in stock markets. The trend in the retail funds market suggests that private investors have...
AFFS estimates that there are 66,000 occupational pension schemes in the UK, with nearly a million members in defined contribution schemes alone. It says the large majority (80,000 members) are in open...
Issuing its biggest ever crime-related fine, the FSA said Aon did not take reasonable care to counter the risks of bribery and corruption associated with making payments to overseas third parties who...
They carry the retirement dreams of millions, yet default funds have been tested almost to breaking point in 2008. Trackers, target return funds, balanced and cautious managed funds have all plunged well...
