Pensions

The news of James Purnell's return to the Department of Work & Pensions came as something of a disappointment to me. After all, during his time as pensions reform minister, he had...

Taking stock now that Corporate Adviser's first awards ceremony is behind us, certain things have become clearer in my perception of the workplace advice space.If you weren't able to attend the event...

Contributions into Friends Provident group stakeholder products are set to fall when the basic tax rate falls in April unless employers or staff pay more in.The insurer's stakeholder contracts collect contributions on...

It will now cover all benefits up to a maximum of £3 million, subject to a five-year pre-existing conditions exclusion during its 90-day underwriting period. Until now it offered accidental death cover...

Taken as a whole Friends Provident's strategic review could arguably be said to see it placing a greater focus on the corporate benefits market as it moves back to its core activities....

In the latter part of 2007, it was certainly easier to identify risk than identify value. The effects of the credit crunch, slowing economic growth, further banking write-downs and growing problems in...

It is often easy to fail to recognise quite how far technology has taken us. For example, any adviser telephoning a life office for a valuation, unit holdings or transaction history for...

In recent months, we have seen headlines suggesting that many defined benefit pensions schemes are back “in surplus” on accounting standards FRS17 or IAS19. But is it a bit premature to be...

We started with a clean sheet which means we can do things differently," says David Taylor, managing director of Morgans Corporate Benefits, the branch of the Morgans Group of companies that only...

The result of this year's Corporate Adviser Ultimate Default Fund competition shows that low charges and exposure to equities are both of great importance to advisers when selecting a default fund for...