Pensions

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Although occupational medicine can trace its history back to the middle ages, the last 10 years have seen a revolution in its role within the workplace. In part, this has been driven...

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...

The proposals set out in the HM Treasury discussion paper of 27th July regarding tax relief for future pension savings could have significant consequences for the group risk market. The proposals appear...

With so many reviews going on in the realm of pensions right now it is easy to think that we are in the midst of a Turner Mark II. But this time,...