Pensions

Unum will also now routinely pay for a customer's medical treatment if it is not readily available on the NHS or via private medical insurance and is likely to aid return to...

Loss of employers' National Insurance contributions through pensions has more than tripled over the period, up from £2.8bn in 1999 to £8.3bn this year, according to figures from HM Revenue & Customs.The...

Currently, the norm in the industry is for maximum group income protection (GIP) benefit payouts to be reduced by an amount equivalent to a single person's state incapacity benefit entitlement.Under new welfare...

The move, unveiled in last month's pre-Budget report, is part of a Treasury and DWP-sponsored strategy to improve consumer access to the open market option on annuities.The new website is part of...

The extent to which the Chancellor's decision to close holiday pay schemes in his first pre-Budget report shows he is not prepared to tolerate solutions offered to employers that go against the...

Making sure that everyone has one, or at least everyone except the self-employed is automatically enrolled into one is the top priority for Mike O'Brien, who took over the mantle of minister...

Today, the pension market is largely homogenous with third party fund links being the norm. Skandia offers 396, Legal & General offers 389, Axa offers 172 funds, Zurich, 135 funds and AIG...

The fundamentals underpinning lifestyling are, at least on the surface, sound, but do they really hold up in an age of flexible retirement strategies?Lifestyling has been a feature of the group personal...

Unlike with other group healthcare products, it has never been essential for intermediaries to undergo any training or necessary for them to gather names, addresses and other personal details of scheme members....

"A combination of factors have come into play," says Steve Moody, claims manager at Norwich Union Healthcare. "There are more complicated treatments, for example the monoclonal antibodies such as Herceptin that have...