The drive to improve professional standards amongst PMI intermediaries sits at the heart of AMII’s strategy for 2010, chairman Mike Izzard will tell the organisation’s Autumn meeting today.The event, which takes place...
Last month Corporate Adviser reported that the FSA had sent a confidential letter to the ABI telling insurers that it would not tolerate them setting up trust-based schemes that paid commission to...
THERE ARE few products that blossom when the economy is feeling a chill, but there is no denying the recent downturn has done little to harm the employer-paid cash plan market. With...
The tail end of a Government at a time where there is a real prospect of a new party taking over was always going to be interesting, and so it is proving....
Origen is axing 72 jobs in a bid to tackle the economic downturn and prepare business for the Retail Distribution Review.The job cuts, to be made at all levels of the company...
An investigation into the quality of pre-retirement literature by the Pensions Regulator has found more than half of schemes have room for improvement and three out of 10 are breaking the law.TPR...
The new insurer set up at arms length from Munich Re’s UK reinsurance operations has opened for business to a restricted number of employee benefit consultancies.The new company, called Ellipse, says it...
Product providers are set to ignore an FSA letter warning insurance companies against using trust-based arrangements to sidestep the Retail Last month Corporate Adviser reported that the FSA had sent a confidential...
For followers of this column the problems that the group risk industry currently faces should be familiar. As 2009 - the financial world’s annus horribilus - draws to a close the demands...
Around 15,000 people in the UK face losing at least 20 per cent of their pension benefits if DB scheme trustees do not take control of investment strategy says Hewitt.Hewitt estimates that...
