Pensions

The Pensions Act 2011 requires the government to review the amounts set for the earnings trigger and the qualifying earnings band each year, changing the figures as appropriate. It is considering two...

The survey, which covered 110 of Aon Hewitt’s clients across a broad range of industry sectors with sizes ranging from under 100 to over 30,000 employees, found that just two intended to...

Pensions minister Steve Webb says the move to abolish short service refunds for DC occupational schemes has been made to protect the pension pots of people who move jobs often.The DWP says...

It has also appointed Chris Mowatt, who now leads global stock & reward services. Mowatt has worked for 15 years in the share plans sector and joins from the Corporate Equity Solutions...

The guide says there are currently 62 corporate customers with live employee platforms, representing 240,000 employees. The Platforum estimates average sign-up rates of between 20 and 30 per cent of total employees....

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.
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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...