Pensions

OVER THE last 20 years, pensions, or rather the lack of them, have moved from being a subject that would never be covered in the mainstream media, to being an almost daily...

There are about as many definitions of corporate wrap as there are financial services business models, but one thing is certain - after years of research, design and considerable capital spend, a...

Robin Hames, Head of Technical, Marketing and Research Bluefin Corporate Consulting Among the many notable quotes from Loesje, the international organisation for free speech, the observation that “the longer you wait for...

Nest has placed adverts inviting tenders for investment management services for five different funds in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).The five mandates are for pooled passive funds across global...

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 Paul Johnson.Johnson, who led the...

The FSA working party on consultancy charging had its in augural meeting at the start of October, beginning preliminary attempts to unravel the complexities involved in moving to a new fee model...

Talk to Association of British Insurers acting director-general Maggie Craig about what takes up most of her time, and one word looms large - Europe. Solvency II is the big one, but...

The use of projections as part of the advice process is undergoing a major transition. The FSA has placed new emphasis on the need for all providers to assess likely returns on...

Ask a financial adviser which is their favourite corporate bond fund and the odds are that they will name Invesco Perpetual Corporate Bond fund, managed by the two Pauls - Paul Read...

I recently had the opportunity to sit in at the first full meeting of Workplace Forum, the new industry collaboration group which is being facilitated by my colleagues at F&TRC. It brings...