Pensions

The consultancy warns that the ability to defer tax on employee benefit trusts, one of the key solutions used to compensate high earners for the impending loss of pension tax advantages, may...

NICE rejected the use of Avastin, the drug used in treatment against colorectal cancer whose chemical name is bevacizumab, last week on grounds of cost effectiveness, although it acknowledged that the drug...

JLT says combined revenues of £125m and staff of 1,400 mean it has leapfrogged Aon, taking its place in the top four alongside Mercer, Watson Wyatt and Hewitt. Duncan Haworth, chief executive, JLT...

Empowering consumers, be they employees or those outside the workplace, seems to be at the top of many organisations’ wish lists right now. This laudable aim cannot fail to improve the outcomes...

Pension provision ranks very low in the list of employees’ financial priorities with only 6 per cent choosing it as the most important benefit they are offered, according to research commissioned by...

The process for converting pensions into annuities could be overhauled if providers giving bad deals do not up their game says pensions minister Angela Eagle.Speaking to Corporate Adviser, Eagle, minister for pensions...

One in three bosses is completely unaware of the implications of the Welfare Reform Act, and of those who are, 46 per cent have done nothing yet to change their company strategy...

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has written to the chairmen of Britain’s top 350 companies urging executive pay restraint and making it clear that company remuneration should be aligned with...

The Queen’s Speech confirmation of plans for a national organisation that will deliver Money Guidance to the masses reflects an acceptance of the same challenges facing employers attempting to engage staff in...

Stuart Bayliss, director, Annuity ExchangeUndoubtedly. And the better-resourced intermediaries are already doing so. They are using portals that ask which type of annuity people want. That is the easier part to achieve....