Pensions

Corporate advisers are predicting low proportions of their client base will choose to introduce Nest to staff members without existing pension provision going forward.In an exlusive survey of more than 40 advisers...

Face-to-face benefit communication strategies are one of the hallmarks of highly engaged companies, according to research from Unum.The research shows that 91 per cent of companies with the highest recorded levels of...

Multinationals could boost the effective take-home pay of European employees by up to 12 per cent by restructuring reward packages, says Taxand the tax adviser.Multinationals and their employees are missing out because...

Bupa Health Assurance’s management team will transfer to Friends Provident following Resolution’s proposed acquisition of the organisation.The £165.15 million deal is intended to strengthen Friends’ group risk proposition, as well as bolstering...

The majority of European companies are facing difficulties in attracting and motivating the critical-skill talent needed to help them rebound and prosper in the wake of the economic crisis, according to the...

Actuaries face a host of new challenges to ensure they are ready for Solvency II and could see their roles redefined, delegates a plenary session of the Actuarial Profession’s General Insurance Research...

Pensions professionals have welcomed the introduction of an annual contribution limit for higher rate tax relief of £50,000, and a lifetime limit of £1.5m, frozen until 2015.But PwC says double the government’s...

There has been some debate recently about the suitability of lifestyling as an investment strategy for DC schemes. It’s often suggested that one drawback of lifestyling is that it only targets the...

The auto-enrolment salary threshold should be raised to £7,475 and employers should not have to sign up staff for three months, the review into auto-enrolment has recommended.The review, Making Automatic Enrolment Work,...

Consumer champion Mick McAteer has attacked the pension industry for pushing products that have been made more costly by their complexity, warning GPPs should not be recommended where Nest is more suitable.McAteer,...