Pensions

If there is one single message that David Cross, Grid chairman and head of group risk at Towers Watson would want to get across to the industry, it is to look beyond...

But while a hassle free pan-European approach to pensions may still be beyond reach, it inches ever closer with the European parliament and domestic governments striving to achieve something approaching a harmonised...

Pension scheme members probably don’t know whether they are coming or going. When their annual pensions statements landed on their doormats a year ago they would have been horrified to learn that...

The Coalition government’s announcement this July that it will be phasing out the default retirement age on April 6th 2011 (with a transitional period lasting until October 1st 2011) has met with...

While sales in the domestic medical insurance market stagnate, the international market has a very different tale to tell. New business and renewed interest in sending employees overseas means there are predictions...

Just a few years ago, employees of a company based in different countries around the world were unlikely to receive the same reward packages. But a growing internationalism amongst multi-nationals means an...

It is no secret that most employers would give their eye teeth to be shot of their pensions liabilities. But, like husbands and divorce, they just can’t afford to. It costs a...

In an age of budget airlines, the world has become a much, much smaller place. But it’s not just inexpensive holidays that have had us all reaching for our passports. The economic...

Mark Coleman As far as multi national clients are concerned, access to global healthcare and the growing importance of legal, regulatory, economic and cultural requirements associated with workforce mobility continues unabated. Alongside...

Paul Colley What do we really mean by centralised?Whilst there are many variants we can identify two common models of centralisation, the truly global corporate centre lead entity and the regionalised approach,...