When the US introduced auto-enrolment in 2006, Target Date Funds (TDFs) were popularised as the Qualifying Default Investment Alternatives (QDIA), which offered corporate advisors and pension trustees “safe harbour” that a suitable...
THE ANSWERS: Tom McPhail, head of pensions research, Hargreaves LansdownUnquestionably yes. This is something that, in my role as chair of the Pension Income Choice Association I have discussed with The Pensions...
Workplace pensions took another blow to the body last month with the publication of a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report that placed the performance of UK...
But the single biggest issue dominating the minds of employers is, as we all know, auto-enrolment. And it is going to become even more of a preoccupation as time goes on. The...
Health Connections Direct (HCD) was established in 1997 by Mike Hudson who will continue as a consultant at HCPL. HCPL is the largest independent health insurance intermediaries in the east of England,...
Customers can use the international facility both when they are traveling and if they wish to travel abroad to take treatment in an overseas hospital they prefer. AWC says it is aiming...
The new service, AskTheExpert, will provide policy members with access to the opinions of over 50,000 medical experts. The new service will be offered alongside Best Doctors’ InterConsultation service but without the need...
Previously HMRC required that employees entering into salary sacrifice arrangement for pension contributions could not easily revert to their higher salary. This was generally taken to mean that employees could not opt...
Is the consultancy charging regime proving to be one of the weaker links in the retail distribution review chain?The concept has certainly taken a bit of a battering in the last few...
Independent trustee firm PAN Governance has been selected as corporate director, with Delo appointed as chairman. Pickering joins as a director of the new trust company. B&CE says that while its current...
