Pensions

The ACA survey, of firms with up to 250 employees, found 55 per cent would not meet the Government's requirements for personal accounts exemption. Firms with up to 250 employees generate over...

The rebranding will be phased, with the new identity coming into use at the beginning of 2009. The new brand will also bring together the general insurance broker companies of Venture Preference...

Standard is paying £24.2m for the employee benefits technology and admimistration provider. Vebnet has a corporate client base of 145 and 293,000 employee users of its flexible benefits proposition.Standard says it has...

Xafinity says it is making the move in response to a diminishing role for consultancy services on defined benefit pension schemes.It will develop a proposition to be delivered through IFAs and will...

The report, which surveyed 250 companies, found 49 per cent of employers will be looking for corporate healthcare benefits which provide much more tangible results.Just 10.7 per cent of companies plan to...

The Allianz RCM Global EcoTrends Fund has managed to resist the downward trend in the markets since its launch in February 2008 and has maintained its top position in the IMA Global...

Last month I looked at the opportunities that exist for corporate advisers to develop ongoing relationships with individual scheme members in advance of retirement. This naturally leads onto considering how to achieve...

Syndication mainly works in one of two ways. Schemes can work with multiple providers to agree a structure where the selected benefits are divided between them. This may require lengthy negotiation and...

The commission landscape has changed markedly for corporate advisers in recent months and the impact of both personal accounts and the retail distribution review is only weekly to accelerate the push towards...

Fund managers no longer just care about generating straightforward equity returns and beating benchmarks - today it is all about adding so-called value.Alternative assets and hedge funds fit the bill, as do...