A market study published by the OFT today found a number of features it says, individually or in combination, prevent, restrict or distort competition in the £5 billion UK private healthcare market....
TPR says publication of the high-level principles is the next step in its drive to improve standards of DC provision and ensure that the pensions sector is ready to support automatic enrolment. The...
The decision means millions of public sector workers will now see their inflation protection linked to CPI instead of RPI, cutting between 17 and 20 per cent off the value of the...
Economic analysts are expecting a further period of unprecedented low interest rates, with some predicting a further half a percent fall needed if borrowing is to be stimulated.Nothing new there you may...
Charlie MacEwan, corporate communications director at WPANo. Not as far as is clear so far, anyway. The devil will be in the detail, and my fear is that these tax changes will...
According to the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, at the start of 2011 there were 30,000 employers in the UK with between 50 and 249 employees. These companies will be commencing...
The shortlistAegon Balanced Plus SelectNominated by Joe Swanson, head of corporate benefits, Company RapportNest Retirement Date FundsNominated by Paul Todd, head of investment policy, NestSchroder Managed Balanced FundNominated by Laith Khalaf, pension...
Concerns are growing in the medical insurance market that, as inflation pushes up the cost of cover, premiums are getting close to tipping point. This, some fear, could spell the end of...
It goes without saying that automatic enrolment and the RDR will have a major impact on the corporate pensions market. Taken together they will result in an unprecedented sea change in the...
The issue of scheme governance is coming increasingly to the fore with the Investment Governance Group, composed of Government and industry representatives, having published best practice principles late last year.But market forces...
