Pensions

The pressure to make a profit is creating divisions in the PMI sector that are pitting broker against broker, and in some cases even insurer against broker.Currently no PMI insurer is getting...

When the Daily Mail broke news of the Department for Work and Pensions’ plan to introduce a flat rate pension of around £140 a week last October, it clearly caught the government...

Group pensions are to avoid the FSA ban on legacy commission that will hit the individual market, Corporate Adviser understands.That means commission can still be paid after the implementation of the Retail...

Three-quarters of employers intend to use their existing scheme to comply with employer duties, but 69 per cent have not yet begun to prepare for the pension changes, according to new research.But...

The decline in group risk premiums slowed significantly last year, and death benefit and critical illness sums assured increased by over 7 per cent, according Swiss Re’s latest Group Watch report.In-force sums...

Towers Watson has appointed Helen Dowsey as a senior investment consultant in its expanding Defined Contribution (DC) business.Helen re-joins Towers Watson from Aon Hewitt where she was a principal for the past...

Mercer is appointing Patrick Race as head of its UK investment consulting business, leading its UK executive team and will also sit on the leadership team for Mercer UKFor the last four...

MOST pension schemes still require a minimum of three months to invest in new asset classes, according to a survey by Aon Hewitt. A survey of 57 UK-based schemes found the trustee...

Moxham: “Surely the Government has a role to play?” Almost half of companies without group life cover would consider implementing a policy when pensions auto-enrolment comes into force, according to research carried...

The long-standing Concordat and Moratorium on Genetics, which bans the use of genetic tests in the underwriting of most healthcare insurance contracts, has been extended to 2017.The moratorium, which has been agreed...