Today’s pre-Budget report confirmed that National Insurance rates will increase from April 2011 by 0.5 per cent, in addition to the 0.5 per cent increase unveiled in the 2009 Budget. But the...
Delivering today’s pre-Budget report, Chancellor Alistair Darling said the decision to delay the roll-out of automatic enrolment and personal accounts was one of a series of “tough but necessary choices” to cut...
The insurer is planning to launch its Large Individual Defined Benefit Annuity (LIDBA) product in the first quarter of 2010.The product combines the philosophy of bulk purchase with individual pricing of annuities,...
The consultancy warns that the ability to defer tax on employee benefit trusts, one of the key solutions used to compensate high earners for the impending loss of pension tax advantages, may...
NICE rejected the use of Avastin, the drug used in treatment against colorectal cancer whose chemical name is bevacizumab, last week on grounds of cost effectiveness, although it acknowledged that the drug...
JLT says combined revenues of £125m and staff of 1,400 mean it has leapfrogged Aon, taking its place in the top four alongside Mercer, Watson Wyatt and Hewitt. Duncan Haworth, chief executive, JLT...
Empowering consumers, be they employees or those outside the workplace, seems to be at the top of many organisations’ wish lists right now. This laudable aim cannot fail to improve the outcomes...
Pension provision ranks very low in the list of employees’ financial priorities with only 6 per cent choosing it as the most important benefit they are offered, according to research commissioned by...
The process for converting pensions into annuities could be overhauled if providers giving bad deals do not up their game says pensions minister Angela Eagle.Speaking to Corporate Adviser, Eagle, minister for pensions...
One in three bosses is completely unaware of the implications of the Welfare Reform Act, and of those who are, 46 per cent have done nothing yet to change their company strategy...
