Pensions

Ministers are not being straight with the public on the consequences of a flat-rate pension says Teresa Hunter As far as I can see, there is only one group that will lose...

As expatriate benefits programmes become increasingly complex, companies need to balance global consistency with sufficient flexibility to ensure appropriate and adequate coverage. Often, a single arrangement is the answer – consistency in...

As many nations, particularly in the developed world, continue to battle with difficult economic conditions, a new wave of fast-growing economies is emerging. We have all heard of the Brics - Brazil,...

With 20 years’ experience in Australia’s compulsory pensions system, Nick Sherry, Senator of Tasmania and former minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law is better positioned than most to comment on the reforms...

When a life company that almost no one outside the industry has heard of outperforms Axa, Friends Life, Legal & General, Prudential, Scottish Widows and Standard Life put together in terms of...

As the pace of technology quickens with each passing year so does effective marketing. The change in just a few short years is astounding.Ours is a people business, supported until only recently...

In its latest guidance, the Pensions Regulator (TPR) has offered some insight on how salary exchange, or in old money, salary sacrifice, fits in with automatic enrolment. So what does the guidance...

The Swiss Re Annual Survey provides a cogent insight into how our market is doing - what is going well and what is not. With both group life and group income protection...

This year is a crucial one for defined contribution pension provision in the UK. The growing army of DC pension savers is about to be increased by millions more as employees begin...

Roger Sanders OBE, managing director, Lighthouse GEBNo. Although I support any proposal that increases education and awareness in the pensions arena, I am troubled by the possibility of IBM having a vested...