Pensions

The joint letter to the Pensions Regulator and the Financial Conduct Unit of the FSA calls for an industry protocol on costs and charges to be developed by the end of the...

Available to all its individual and corporate customers, the tools provide a one-stop online mental wellbeing package, offering both assessments and psychotherapy-based support without the need for psychiatric cover.The service combines the...

The Automatic Enrolment Service from Scottish Life will provide employers with an employer duties service for all employees of a company regardless of whether the pension pot is supplied by Nest or...

In a paper called The Distributional Effects of Asset Purchases, the Bank of England has argued that its policy is likely to have had a broadly neutral impact on the value of...

As employers come to terms with the complexities of demonstrating compliance with the auto-enrolment process, they may come to regret their opposition to compulsory pension contributions. That is the conclusion that Malcolm...

The LCP DC Fees Survey of over 300 funds has revealed that around 30 per cent of DC investment providers were unwilling to provide details of the indirect costs associated with their...

The survey, which polled 59 employers, showed a low level of understanding of the cost of auto-enrolment amongst smaller employers, with 44 per cent predicting it would cause just a small increase...

The research shows 72.3 per cent of advisers and 66.7 per cent of employers surveyed think it is important or very important that their auto- enrolment technology can be used with any...

Shadow pensions minister Gregg McClymont says the Department for Work and Pensions should have gone for the ‘aggregator’ approach, whereby small pots would only be automatically transferred to low-charge trust-based arrangements, rather...

Dropping the aggregator model proposed by some life offices, the DWP said it had opted for ‘pot follows member’ because of the potential for reduced charges and because it is the most...