Flex for SME launch for BHSF in autumn
The new offering, which is set to be launched in the autumn, is called FlexSme, and comprises a platform that brings together a section of core benefits, BHSF’s own voluntary benefits and...
Pensions
Nest names the five annuity providers on its retirement panel
Canada Life and Legal & General will be offering both conventional and enhanced retirement income products through the panel. Just Retirement and Partnership will be providing enhanced retirement income products, while Reliance...
Andrews elected new president of Pensions Management Institute
She will take over from current president Mike Sullivan at the PMI’s Annual General Meeting on 7 July 2011. Andrews was elected to PMI Council in 2001, becoming vice president in 2010,...
Mercer launches diversified growth fund for workplace savings offering
Mercer says the fund uses its best thinking for defined benefit schemes giving defined contribution members the chance to access asset classes and investment strategies not usually open to them. Mercer says...
Valuable investment
John Greenwood, editor As the employee benefits sector continues its quiet revolution the battle for control of assets and their distribution is intensifying. Many new advisory and distribution models are developing, and...
Level commission for SMEs the way forward says PruHealth
Priestly: “This approach will foster stronger relationships with our intermediary partners” PruHealth has moved all its SME business to a 10:10 commission basis in what it describes as a bid to stop...
Onwards and upwards
The constant development of technology and the various ways in which we - as insurers - are able to utilise it, can sometimes leave the feeling that you are racing to keep...
Lorica name change adds employee benefits
Lorica Employee Benefits is the new brand name of the firm formerly known as Lorica Consulting. The move follows the company’s evolution to become a full-service employee benefits business, adding new flexible...
Ostrich pension generation
A generation of Britons faces a cash-strapped retirement as people ignore or refuse to respond to the changing nature of pension provision in the UK, a new report from HSBC has revealed.Members...
Standard Life suspends corp md O’Neill and Vebnet director Verner
Gerry O’Neill, Standard Life’s former managing director of corporate solutions, and James Verner have been suspended from their roles at the company.Standard says it is unable to disclose the reason for their...
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