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,...
McAteer: “There is an inverse relationship between price and quality” The changes to the taxation of high earners’ pensions emphasises the need for alternatives to ill health early retirement pensions says Canada...
Flynn: “A great opportunity” Standard Life has appointed Ann Flynn as head of customer management in corporate marketing, reporting into corporate marketing director Jonathan Hewitt.Flynn joins from Scottish Widows where she was...
There are reputedly 9,000 public servants who earn more than the Prime Minister, which tells us a lot. It tells us that taking a £4bn axe to pensions has been as much...
You wait all year for a big announcement on pensions, and then three, four or even five come along at once. Pensions professionals can be forgiven for a sense of overload in...
TPR has accused pension providers of designing pre-retirement information packs that confuse customers rather than communicate their right to shop around for a better deal.TPR says while most pre-retirement communications do follow...
The AnswersPhilip Brown, head of retirement product, Partnership Philip Brown, head of retirement product, PartnershipNo. Banning the use of gender as an underwriting and pricing factor can only have a negative impact...
