Pensions

Surging equity prices mean that many employees may be able to work fewer years than recently feared in order to retire on a reasonable income, according to calculations from Mercer. Mercer’s new...

Scottish Life has rejected suggestions that an RDR-enforced move to consultancy charging that is akin to its own financial adviser’s fee model will choke off group pension distribution.Scottish Life says its remuneration...

Enrich, the benefits and reward company formed from the group risk business of Gissings, is launching a pensions service two years after the organisation was cut in two by a MBO.Following the...

Advisers wanting to tell employers what their responsibilities will be if they want to be exempted from enrolling staff into the Nest scheme will have to wait for the outcome of a...

Steve Herbert, head of benefits strategy, OrigenYES. Whilst on the face of it, the aim of removing commission looks positive from an employee perspective, it does however ignore the reality that many...

During the highs of the dot.com boom at the end of the last millennium, stories of employees in the technology sectors walking away with £100k payouts from share schemes were common, while...

Next on the wish list would be a commitment to incentivise employers and individuals to close the protection gap which, at the end of 2008, remained at £2.3 trillion for life assurance...

We have entered a new year and a new decade and many protection advisers will be hoping it will be one at least as good for business as the first seven years...

Under the latest proposals the government have decided to exclude small employers until after 2017. In other words Nest will focus on deconstructing schemes that already work rather than helping those who...

Is the pensions industry suffering from legislative and consultative fatigue? Perhaps that is the reason for the muted response to the tax changes first announced in April last year and made more...