Pensions

Planning to get Personal

Pensions experts have been poring over the Pensions Bill – outlining the launch of workplace-based Personal Accounts – since it was published at the beginning of December.To many it marks a new...

A personal account

Most intermediaries in the corporate pensions space have an interest, if not a desire, to see Personal Accounts go the way of other controversial Government-sponsored administration and technology outsourcing operations, most notably...

Default to the winner

Many commentators have described the Personal Accounts agenda as the biggest single threat to private sector group pensions ever which means the pressure on the industry to get its own house in...

Future cruel

Just like London's flagship Olympic stadium, Personal Accounts are meant to be ready for business by 2012, but the jury is out on which is most likely to be late or over-budget.The...

A growing problem

Between 1993 and 2005 the percentage of adult men in England classed as obese rose from 13.2 per cent to 23.1 per cent, while among adult women the percentage grew from 16.4...

Parting gifts

"It's lucrative business but it can be overlooked by some corporate intermediaries," admits Stuart Scullion, sales and marketing director at healthcare specialists The Private Health Partnership. "We proactively follow up every employee...

Many happy returns?

The UK Reit market was ushered in when the UK property market was still riding high. It arrived to much fanfare, with Reits billed as a tax efficient and liquid way for...

Commission crunch time

While intermediaries operating through the workplace may think this review has nothing to do with them, the FSA has made clear that commission issues in the group market will come under just...

Diverse strategies

Spending a couple of days with senior figures from 40 of the country’s top intermediaries has reinforced in my mind the diverse nature of the businesses that fill the corporate advice space....

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