Benjamin joined HSA in 2000, which became Simplyhealth in 2009, and led the company throughout a number of mergers and acquisitions, most recently Denplan and the healthcare arm of Groupama Insurances. Simplyhealth...
The advertising incorporates the Friendly Society’s family of Health Shield characters. Philip Wood, executive director of sales and marketing at Health Shield, said the campaign was designed to remind the company’s audience...
ACA chairman Andrew Vaughan made the call in the wake of the publication of the DWP’s Red Tape Challenge proposals for easing the administrative and regulatory burden on employers offering DB schemes....
The Select Committee says it is concerned at the inconsistent regulation across workplace pension schemes with several bodies with responsibility for regulating contract-based pension schemes. The report says: “Financial services regulation changed...
The CBI, NAPF, Labour Party and several pensions consultants have attacked the Government’s ‘pot follows member’ plan, accusing it of risking transferring pots to poorer value schemes, increase costs, introduce a short-termist...
The effects of the the introduction of auto-enrolment are still to have an impact on the market. The total cover provided by employer sponsored death benefits arrangements topped £1 billion in 2012...
Rule 6.1C.20(2) of the FSA’s Conduct of Business Sourcebook states that firms must not make a consultancy charge for the cost of preparing or giving advice to an employee who chooses...
The tool draws on Aviva’s online Auto-enrolment Manager for Employers (AME) hub-based solution, which has the flexibility to operate across multiple providers’ pension schemes and manages employee enrolments, contribution levels, opt...
The partnership means JLT Employee Benefits will offer Vielife’s online health and wellbeing solution through its BenPal online benefits management system, BenPal. JLT says companies currently using BenPal who embark on health...
Nest says Budgen’s role will involve helping professional intermediaries understand its proposition. At HSBC Workplace Retirement Services he was responsible for delivery of the HSBC DC proposition into the corporate IFA and...
