Pensions

The survey, conducted across a range of corporate IFAs and EBCs, found an unsurprising increase in the likelihood of staff accepting transfer offers if cash incentives are offered as well. Only 4...

Workers in Australia are seeing their first negative rate of return in nearly 20 years of compulsory retirement saving. The average rate for the last year is now minus 15% according to...

Many will not read it, let alone understand it given the mountain of paper providers need to use to give them appropriate regulated information. So where do members turn for information and...

Fear also plays a part in workplace DC pensions with employees being anxious about making investment choices. Our own research into employee attitudes in 2007 revealed that most did not understand the...

Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) play a valuableinformative and supportive role when problems at homeor work impact on an employee’s state of mind, thusputting their attendance or performance at risk.It may be tempting...

Groom joins AXA PPP healthcare from AXA Life, where he worked since 2003, most recently as distribution and marketing director for its corporate business. Mark Howes, managing director of Sun Life Direct,...

It is right that the public should be told that around a third of the value of their DC pensions has been lost since the beginning of the credit crunch. But unless...

Morrisons is the latest FTSE100 to expand its employee benefits provision to include a Sipp which will run alongside its existing pension arrangements. L&G says its corporate Isa will be available from...

Called the Family Suntrust, the product is a group Sipp written under its own trust to allow efficient management of pooled assets, including commercial property, by families, business partners and groups of...

GIP in-force premiums rose to £648m, an increase of just 1.2 per cent compared to 2007, and the report says the outlook for the sector is 'pessimistic'.While coming from a much lower...