Pensions

We are standing at the beginning of what feels like a crucial 18 months for corporate wrap. In the past we have seen launches delayed, delivery dates slip by barely noticed and...

Most employers will be slow to adopt new wrap platforms, despite the race between industry providers to get their offerings out to market, according to delegates at the Corporate Wrap Forum hosted...

Increasing funds under management may be the main attraction of corporate wraps to advisers. But an assets under management model may not sit well with the regulatory framework created by the Retail...

Corporate wrap may give the life offices behind them a captive audience for financial services products, but employees will be resistant to a hard sell, warned delegates at last month’s Corporate Wrap...

So we have a new government, and parties with widely differing views on pensions sharing the ministerial offices down at the Department for Work and Pensions.Of the views on pensions of new...

AWD Chase de Vere Consulting has launched ’Savings Through Work’, an online voluntary employee benefits service which enables employers to provide generous discounts to their staff on thousands of goods and services,...

LINKING fees to reductions in employee absence can be a way to align adviser and employer interests, but there are challenges in benchmarking actual returns, according to advisers speaking at the Corporate...

FINAL salary pension payments in the private sector failed to keep pace with inflation last month for the first time since the latest indexation rules were introduced in 1997, according to Towers...

Burns: Access to solutions BLUEFIN and Redington have created an investment consulting offering for the smallto medium-sized pensionscheme.Bluefin will access Redington’s Asset Liability Management (ALM), risk analytics and capital marketsexpertise through a...

CAPITA Hartshead Actuarial and Consultancy Services is linking up with Partnership, the impaired life provider, to help individuals with low-value DC pension accounts access a wider range of annuities.The arrangement is designed...