The Coalition Government’s proposals for a rethink on the taxation of higher earners have been welcomed across the pensions industry.Chancellor George Osborne announced in last month’s Emergency Budget that the Government will...
The government has appointed former Labour pensions minister John Hutton to chair an inquiry into public sector pensions, and Will Hutton, journalist and executive vice-chair of the Work Foundation to conduct a...
Recent findings from the CBI/Pfizer’s absence and workplace health survey 2010, show that since its last survey in 2008, absence fell to an average of 6.4 days per employee in 2009 at...
The Emergency Budget will cause the number of pensioners eligible for means testing to reduce and gradually narrow the gap between the full Basic State Pension and the Pension Credit, according to...
Investment governance can be seen by some as a necessary evil. I however see it as one of the most important things we as pensions providers do. This includes the setting up...
Confucius, he says: “You cannot prevent the bird of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent him making a nest in your hair.”In our sad old pensions world, Nest...
We are still only a few weeks into the new administration, yet so much has changed. The full ramifications of last month’s Emergency Budget will take years to be fully understood, but...
Defending the abolition of commission, the FSA has rejected arguments that consultancy charging will lead smaller employers to level down to Nest. In policy statement 10/10, responding to the issue, the FSA...
Publishing the final rules for GPPs the FSA has also confirmed that, as expected, the ban on commission on new schemes will remain.The permission to pay commission indefinitely on existing schemes has...
That figure, cited in the FSA’s policy statement 10/10, published today, is considerably higher than those considered acceptable to savers by many industry experts.The FSA policy statement says: “Respondents quoted commission rates...
