Pensions

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...

Fiona Tait, business development manager at Scottish LifeYes. We suspect some providers will go down that route over the next couple of years. But we and others will not be doing so....

Debi O’DonovanThe first of the Baby Boomer generation are hitting their mid sixties now, thus starting what some are calling a “silver tsunami” of retirees over the coming decade.The Boomers make up...

Group income protection insurance can provide a privately funded solution to alleviate this problem. It provides an income to replace lost earnings; it can provide funds to save for a retirement pension;...