Pensions

While 2006 was a bumper bonus season for many in the City, with payouts hitting a record £8.8bn, experts are expecting a more modest approach from City firms this year as the...

A new world of financial advice in and around the workplace is beginning to take shape. After years of debate, the overhaul of the UK's savings framework is moving into gear and...

That is the bleak warning contained in The Insurance Report from Swiss Re published this month.The annual report says that at the end of 2006 there were 42,641 death benefit schemes and...

The event, which is being presented in association with Scottish Life, will be hosted by comedian Marcus Brigstocke.A panel of industry experts will judge a wide range of categories acknowledging excellence in...

Launching the initiative at last months conference, Joanne Segars, chief executive of the NAPF said: "DC is the fastest growing part of the pensions market and because the associated challenges are growing...

The regulator is understood to be open to suggestions from the industry as to how a new commission regime could operate in a more liberal way in the corporate pensions market because...

Advisers will be able to quote for business to be written on the platform from this month, with schemes able to go live on Embassy from January 2008. Axa bought Winterthur over...

Jones is the third ex-NatWest executive to be appointed to a high profile post by the Government in recent years, following in the footsteps of Derek Wanless, ex-group chief executive of the...

The figure for the worst performance, 4.3 per cent a year, reflected those schemes that put in place cash defaults to encourage members to actively participate in pension fund selection. But the...

BACP says the move amounts to a genuine policy departure intended to reduce the long waiting lists for patients needing help.Legal & General says it has experienced positive results from the use...