Pensions

He contacts the insurer again, stressing the short-term nature of his prospects, to be told £3,600 is as high as they can go. His employer is shocked, and orders the in-house scheme...

The ultimate test of whether a defined contribution scheme is a success or not is the performance of its default fund. After all, it is well known that four in five workers...

Auto-enrolment is almost within touching distance, with the United Kingdom’s ten biggest employers introducing the system from the start of October, quickly followed by other large and medium-sized firms throughout 2013 and...

Shadowing arguably the most popular pensions minister for a generation is a challenging brief. For Labour’s rising star Gregg McClymont, the MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East, the job is as...

This was the subject of a blog I read towards the end of last year, referring to the famous line from The Life of Brian - “All right, but apart from the...

Britain has a long track history of creating world-beating technologies. How many nations can genuinely claim that their citizens invented things that have changed the world as much as the telephone, the...

The pressure on business enterprises to deliver more with fewer resources is unrelenting and, while technology developments continue to drive the pace of change, the nature of work has changed out of...

We are often asked what Grid members get for their money. The short answer is ’plenty’ - regular legislative updates, exclusive access to Grid’s employer research results and roundtable debates, input to...

Over the next few years over 10 million individuals will start to save towards a pension as a result of auto-enrolment, with the first staging date due to happen in October this...

As the UK medical insurance market stagnates, advisers are looking further afield for new opportunities. Growth figures of anything from 10 to 30 per cent a year are making international medical insurance...