Pensions

Alistair McQueen, Workplace Savings, Manager, Aviva Hold on to your hats. It’s going to be a big six months.The Olympics are on our doorstep, auto-enrolment is less than a hundred days away...

Corporate advisers have had more than a year to digest good practice guidance on implementing consultancy charges under the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), but 15 months on there is little clarity on...

Access to NHS dentistry is on the up, with 1.4 million more people receiving treatment in the last 24 months than in the same period ending March 2006. But, according to a...

Proposed changes to Disability Living Allowance, which pays up to £120 a week to help disabled people meet the additional costs of mobility and care, are certainly proving emotive. There have already...

As many as 70 of the FTSE 100 companies now offer diversified growth funds (DGFs) as part of the fund range in their defined contribution pension schemes, it emerged last month, up...

While the challenges associated with implementing consultancy charging are significant, there is no reason to doubt that they will work.However, there is a potential misconception about the FSA’s intentions regarding “sufficient flexibility”...

The default annuity option for schemes run by Mercer, Towers Watson, Bluefin, Punter Southall and in advanced talks with two more of the biggest EBCs, The Open Market Annuity Service (Tomas) is...

Despite The Pensions Regulator insisting that auto-enrolment will be a straightforward process for employers, a more accurate assessment is actually that it would be hard to envisage a process that could be...

The recent news that the rate of price inflation has dropped dramatically is welcome news. The reduction in CPI to 3 per cent after a long period where annual rates have been...

The market data reported in the latest Swiss Re Group Watch publication give some very positive messages about the current state of the group risk market. In-force premiums at the end of...