Employers wanting to dismiss on grounds of increased pension costs due to age have been given a boost by a decision in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) last month.In the case of...
Aviva is launching a salary exchange calculator for advisers to help advisers demonstrate the increased benefits of salary exchange to clients caused by recent and future National Insurance contribution increases. The life...
Group Risk Development is launching a new area of its website at www.grouprisk.org.uk, offering members access to a library of communications, minutes and other materials. The members area will also allow organisations...
HSBC Bank is appointing Simon Wainwright as its new chief executive officer of Insurance for the UK, moving him from a similar role in Ireland. He succeeds Robert Lang who has moved...
THE £50,000-a-year cap on pension contributions, frozen until 2015, is a more punitive attack on pensions than former Labour chancellor Gordon Brown’s infamous raid on defined benefit schemes, says Chris Noon, partner...
WORKLOAD pressure on GPs is making them ignore key health issues, according to research by Aviva.The provider’s latest Health of the Workplace study shows nine out of 10 GPs would like to...
Friends Provident Corporate Benefits is appointing Colin Williams as distribution and marketing director, Paul Bucksey as head of new business development and Russell Welsh as head of workplace development.The provider says these...
Pensions minister Steve Webb and The Pensions Regulator have launched a combined attack on providers for using jargon and legalese to put members of workplace schemes off shopping around for the best...
Nest has placed adverts inviting tenders for investment management services for five different funds in the Official Journal of the European Union.The five mandates are for pooled passive funds across global equity,...
Matthews: “Report makes fantastic progress” The government may not have enough time to resolve the regulatory imbalance between trust and contract-based pensions in time for auto-enrolment, warns IFS economist and review chief...
