Pensions

A letter from the chairman of the trustees of one of the company's final salary schemes said: "It is apparent to the trustees that improving the company's liquidity position, ie the amount...

Will the existing schemes meet all the qualifying and automatic enrolment criteria?To be a qualifying scheme and an automatic enrolment scheme, existing schemes need to: ▪ be a registered occupational or a...

In the UK this is not so much a risk as a reality. The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has urged MPs to rethink changes announced in the Budget on removal...

Retirement counselling services have existed for many years but haven’t necessarily been widely available. In order to reach the mass market it is probably necessary for providers to build a service into...

Our recent Health of the Workplace 3 Report confirmed that employers were either considering cutting, or had cut spending on their Group Risk policies with Group Income Protection being slightly higher (8%)...

The financial services sector is coming to terms with the prospect of a speedier than expected removal of the default retirement age of 65. The 2006 age discrimination rules have already caused...

The price hike, from £150 per organisation per year, to £2,000 has provoked calls for a rethink and has led at least one high profile member to resign his membership. In an...

Although it was agreed that there was a trend in the direction of limited income protection benefits, not a single attendee felt that the market was moving towards lump sum income protection,...

Speaking at the GRAF event last month, Guy Roberts, business development director at Portus Consulting, quipped: “Insurers are keen for you not to rebroke in the middle year for their own book...

According to the AIC, the first split - Dualvest - was launched in 1965 and was based on the "father and son arrangement". Separate income and capital shares were created which meant...