Pensions

The rising issue of employers working in cahoots with pensions advisers to split provider-paid commissions has rightly drawn severe criticism from other advisers and employers alike.I can see how some employers may...

Advisers are aware that the potential closure of defined benefit schemes to new entrants or to future accrual may drive group risk market growth as self-insured death and spouses’ benefits become unbundled....

At the turn of the millennium, Alan Miller was one of Britain’s best-known star fund managers. He plied his trade successfully as an active fund manager, initially at Jupiter and then at...

John Jory, director, B&CE InsuranceNo. If commission is banned on new GPPs, it must also be banned on existing arrangements. Otherwise the industry will walk straight into yet another commission-driven product bias...

But less than four in 10 say they feel comfortable managing this responsibility. The research found that 21 per cent of private sector employees believe recent economic events mean they will have...

The provider says it expects several million employees to be offered a regular company Isa, which it calls a ’Cisa’, as big employers come on board.L&G has offered a company Isa accepting...

That is the conclusion of a report by Katherine Ashby and Michelle Mahdon of The Work Foundation, published last month.The report, commissioned by Axa PPP healthcare, found that higher levels of sickness...

Mystery still surrounds the identity of the corporate intermediary at the centre of the row over cash kickbacks to employers paid out of up front commission.But the furore, kicked off last month...

The source says deductions from premiums in the region of 3 per cent initial and 0.5 per cent trail are what the FSA sees as a fair market rate for advice in...

The provider warns that the group risk industry must seek clarification from the FSA that group life and GIP will not potentially fall foul of the RDR rules on commission disclosure.CP10/08, Pure...