Pensions

The Coalition’s £50,000 annual contribution cap on pensions will not hit those retiring on grounds of severe ill-health, but tax charges couldstill arise if a scheme’s definition of disability is lower than...

Cridland: It is inevitable that people will want to work for longer The CBI has called on the government to tackle the unintended consequences of the removal of the Default Retirement Age...

As every link in the chain of the economy becomes increasingly strained, weaknesses become apparent, and losers start looking for someone to blame. Where do they look? In the small print. And...

They contain the retirement hopes and aspirations of millions, and they are selected by you, the corporate IFAs and employee benefit consultants that implement the nation’s workplace pension solutions.Now in its fifth...

The organisation also wants the abolition of the DRA postponed by a year until solutions are found to a range of problems it has identified with the law change.It claims that the...

Michael Whitfield, chief executive of Thomsons Online Benefits says the concern shown by MPs on the TSC reflects a change of mood in government. He believes the timeline for introduction of the...

Called RetireSure Essentials, the offering has been designed to enable costs of advice and servicing to be met using a simplified remuneration model.RetireSure Essentials comprises scheme governance with annual reporting, annual review...

Pensions minister Steve Webb told the House of Commons he would not be going ahead with the change, despite indications such a change could be introduced made at an NAPF conference this...

The attack comes on the day Webb is set to launch a consultation on indexation of final salary schemes. Webb has been widely reported as planning to allow private sector schemes with...

In a survey carried out by the NAPF published today 64 per cent of people managing DB schemes said the Government should enable all pension schemes to have the option of changing...