Pensions

Supreme sacrifice

In association withThe tax efficiency of salary sacrifice for different earnings groups seems to have been constantly under question as both former and current governments have grappled with the taxation of pensions.But...

Off the critical list

With corporate clients scrutinising every penny of their employee benefit spend, the health insurance market hasn’t been immune from the post Lehman Brothers fallout. But in comparison with some sectors of the...

Shock resistant

The group risk market has certainly not remained unscathed by the financial traumas of the last two years and there is a considerable way to go before it experiences anything approaching business...

Lessons of lehmans

On Wednesday September 10 2008, Lehman Brothers posted a loss of $3.9bn for the three months to August. Confidence in the firm evaporated and, in the absence of a US Government bail-out...

Tested to the limit

It took the FTSE 100 more than 16 months to recover from the Lehman Brothers collapse - it wasn’t until December 2009 that the index returned to levels not seen since the...

The pain of relief

Michael Johnson on…“I got the job not because I was a member of the party but because I am somebody who can organise things. It does not mean I vote Conservative”Nest: “I...

Know your customer

The long term savings market has had another period of bad press recently as the fees charged by fund managers have come under intense scrutiny. This once again threatens to topple any...

Talk to the machine

Many people in the financial services industry are uncomfortable with technology. The reasons for this are many and diverse. But one of the most common is they simply lack good keyboard skills....

The Corporate Agenda

Debi O’DonovanJuly, the European Court of Justice ruled that VAT is due on retail vouchers which are bought by employees via salary sacrifice schemes. This has caused a bit of a flap...

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