Pensions

As one provider exits the group risk market, so another joins. Ellipse may not yet be writing business with every consultancy in the sector right now, but it is setting itself a...

LEGAL & General is launching a new product designed to help small defined benefit schemes reduce their risk by providing an annuity for key individuals with large benefits.The insurer is planning to...

THE RECOMMENDATION from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) that cancer drug Avastin is not a cost effective use of NHS resources highlights the differences between state and private care says...

As the gatekeepers to the substantial spoils of employee benefits business, consultants and advisers have long wielded considerable power over the UK’s pension providers. The fear of being left out in the...

JLT GROUP has become the UK’s fourth biggest employee benefit consultant with the acquisition of HSBC Actuaries and Consultants. Combined revenues of £125m and staff of 1,400 mean it has leapfrogged Aon,...

Friends Provident is launching an executiononly Sipp as part of the roll out of its corporate platform functionality through 2010.Friends says the launch, which is expected to happen in June 2010, is...

We all knew that the Retail Distribution Review was going to cause a big shakeup in the corporate pensions market. Actually seeing the outlawing of commission in black and white, on the...

This Christmas just gone, if we so wished, we could have bought our presents, chatted to our friends and family, booked our parties and bought our groceries, all online. I’m sure it...

The June 2009 House of Lords final judgment on Stringer v HMRC has left the group income protection community little wiser about holiday pay and sick leave issues than they were five...

Intermediaries have played a major role in the growth of both the private medical insurance and group income protection markets since the mid-1980s. But more recently, growth in sales of both of...