Pensions

Implementing automatic enrolment is arguably the biggest professional challenge many working in the pensions industry today will ever have faced. It is doubtless an opportunity in equal measure.The opportunities are obvious for...

With the onset of automatic enrolment fast approaching, employers are faced with a number of complex choices that will have a direct impact on their business and their employees. Some may focus...

The said academic was David Blake, of the Pensions Institute at the Cass Business School, who with fellow members Douglas Wright and Yumeng Zhang, has written a series of discussion papers looking...

In the current economic climate, the need to obtain the best possible value for money remains vital, particularly when investing in big-ticket items. With businesses under pressure to manage costs effectively, it...

When it comes to staying safe abroad, international medical insurers can help prepare employees before they head off. “Many of the insurers including Allianz Worldwide Care, Axa PPP healthcare, Bupa International and...

John Ritchie, chief executive, EllipseEllipse, which entered the group life and critical illness cover markets in 2009 and which intends to also enter the group income protection market later this year, expects...

Lifestyle strategies are not the silver bullet that will protect defined contribution investors and they will be “poorer” in retirement as a consequence of them.This is the finding of a new report...

The importance of keeping an eye on developments in Europe is obvious. We already have examples of two EU regulatory initiatives that are pretty much a certainty to put up the price...

CV - JOHN DEANELivesBath, ’convenient, as I work in Edinburgh and London’.Enjoys- Keen cyclist between May and September ’because I do a charity cycle ride with MoneySpinners every September. Then it goes...

Equities were heading for their worst week since October 2008 in the penultimate week of September before rallying. Banks globally were showing that they are, despite much management protestation, still at the...