Pensions

Our skills are much in demand. BP has closed its final-salary scheme to anyone joining after 2010, Barclays has stopped the future accrual of benefits into its staff scheme, and Morrisons supermarket...

Aegon stunned advisers with the announcement last month that it was stopping writing group risk business with immediate effect. It gave the reason for doing so as being because it does not...

The consultancy says it has decided against block switches, despite offers from big insurers to do so, because it wants to negotiate the best terms for each of its clients.Several providers have...

Awareness of personal accounts has remained largely unchanged over the 6 month period ending in February 2009, although there was a slight increase in the number of employees who thought they would...

Speaking at AMII's annual conference Izzard said the new qualification being worked on in association with the CII was essential to the future health of the sector and pointed to the recent...

Payne said the conference had seen the attendance of significant numbers of IFAs who had not sold PMI before or had only sold a little and were looking to expand further into...

The provider revealed the launch at the AMII conference in Leicestershire last month. The EAP offers a telephone service operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week and gives access to...

A report published by IFS researchers has revealed new information on the government's target market for personal accounts.In 2005 there were around 4.7 million employees who were not offered the chance to...

Speaking at the Association of Corporate Treasurers Pensions Conference, Boyle said discounting future cash-flows could create a potentially misleading impression.He noted that a draft new Actuarial Standard issued for consultation by the...

Research from the insurer indicates that a two tier charging structure is no more likely to influence decisions than a single charging structure.Aegon is urging Pada to choose a charging structure that...