Pensions

Making sure that everyone has one, or at least everyone except the self-employed is automatically enrolled into one is the top priority for Mike O'Brien, who took over the mantle of minister...

Today, the pension market is largely homogenous with third party fund links being the norm. Skandia offers 396, Legal & General offers 389, Axa offers 172 funds, Zurich, 135 funds and AIG...

The fundamentals underpinning lifestyling are, at least on the surface, sound, but do they really hold up in an age of flexible retirement strategies?Lifestyling has been a feature of the group personal...

Unlike with other group healthcare products, it has never been essential for intermediaries to undergo any training or necessary for them to gather names, addresses and other personal details of scheme members....

"A combination of factors have come into play," says Steve Moody, claims manager at Norwich Union Healthcare. "There are more complicated treatments, for example the monoclonal antibodies such as Herceptin that have...

Share incentive plans continue to be popular tools in aiding UK firms to entice and retain high flying executives. But advisers need to be switched-on if they are to ensure their top-earning...

Key to any client's decision whether or not to put benefits in place is what it will cost and what return they will get on their benefit. This is not a straightforward...

Just when confidence in financial services was looking like it had turned a corner, along came the run on Northern Rock. No-one knows how long the ramifications of the first run on...

The Employee Support Scheme service, which is arranged with PHP's recently acquired subsidiary Red Arc Assured, can be used alongside group medical insurance or as a standalone service. It makes Red Arc's...

The study found that 82 per cent of pension trustees in the UK are men and 60 per cent are over the age of 50. Just 12 per cent of pension fund...