Pensions

Health Shield says the number of new company paid group schemes also rose sharply by 145 per cent to 147 for the year.Releasing its figures for 2009, the provider says business grew...

Westfield’s Foresight Plan now offers an absence and risk management tool and employee assistance programme including CBT as core benefits. The plan also offers a consultation benefit and stand-alone scanning service.Corporate premiums...

The SPC says the recruitment drive is needed to reflect the increasing role played by corporate IFAs in pensions, particularly in the fast-growing DC space.SPC president Duncan Howorth says the organisation is...

Any concerns about the lack of popularity of group income protection are magnified many times over with group critical illness cover, which continues to be a highly impoverished relation and has never...

Commission has been a dirty word in financial services for years now, but advisers operating in the workplace should not be tarred with the same brush as those giving individual advice. Yet...

Managing director Nick Burns collects Bluefin’s “Corporate Adviser Firm of the Year”award Bluefin Bluefin was named Firm of the Year at the 2010 Corporate Adviser Awards in London last month, while awards...

PROVIDERS and advisers are calling on the Financial Services Skills Council to create an exam specifically for corporate intermediaries if they are to be brought within scope of the Retail Distribution Review.Advisers...

LIFE offices have reported significant falls in group pension business in 2009, blaming the economic downturn.Insurers say pay freezes, less recruitment and general fiscal tightening in corporate budgets led to the falls.Axa...

Altmann: DWP has taken its eye off the ball THE Department for Work and Pensions has been accused of not understanding the effects of the RDR after its head of personal accounts...

Pension investors have already seen increases in longevity and poor returns on investments give their incomes a hammering. Now European Union (and EAA) solvency requirements, in the shape of Solvency II, risk...