The new upper threshold for auto-enrolment is more than £2,500 higher than the £39,853 limit confirmed by the DWP in December. The “earnings trigger” above which employees are enrolled (£8,105), and the...
Macro-economic perspectivesIan Winship, manager of the BlackRock Absolute Return Bond fund: “The Chancellor presented a fiscally-neutral Budget today relative to the Autumn Statement. There were two major issues of interest to fixed income...
Salary sacrificeRobin Hames, head of technical, marketing and research, Bluefin: “The Treasury has announced plans to close a loophole which has been heavily promoted by some audit and tax consultancies, in which...
The mailshot is part of a mailshot of around 100,000 letters to IFAs, accountants and HR professionals this month. The regulatoris keen to raise awareness among IFAs it sees as crucial to the...
The Aon Hewitt Benefits and Trends Survey, which polled 185 employers in the UK, representing a combined workforce of 650,000 employees globally, concludes employers are missing opportunities both to improve the health...
But widely trailed predictions of reductions in pensions tax relief will not go ahead.However, to stop tax avoidance there will be an overall cap on income tax reliefs claimed by individuals of...
Pontin was a member of the AMII executive committee from 2007 to 2010 and is currently sales director (West) of Jelf Employee Benefits. He succeeds Andrew Tripp, who has been AMII chairman...
Steve Bee, the self-styled pensions guru who has for decades been one of the industry’s most high profile pundits and most influential thinkers, says he is no longer an expert on the...
In a Centre for Policy Studies paper, Johnson has called for the government to take on ‘deeply-entrenched vested interests’ in the financial services industry by abolishing higher rate tax relief. Part of...
The provider is launching two new risk-based fund ranges, Passive Plus and Active Plus, to sit alongside its MyFolio Managed funds.Standard says the new fund ranges have been designed to allow schemes...
