Pensions

Jarvis qualified as an actuary at Friends Provident and has been involved in the flexible benefits sector since 2003 when he was at Buck Consultants. He moved to Hewitt in 2006. Hollingdale...

GRiD is appointing Teamspirit Public Relations as press office, charged with raising awareness of the organisation and the value of group risk products. The GRiD website, www.grouprisk.org.uk, is undergoing an exensive upgrade...

The consultation paper, called ‘Building personal accounts: designing an investment approach’ is aiming to draw views on good practice and expertise from across the industry on the most appropriate investment approach for...

Publishing its DC Pensions In The Workplace survey, the firm says around 80 per cent of employers intend to keep their existing pension scheme in place with only 2 per cent planning...


The provider is also increasing its free cover limit to £1.25m, improving its pricing and streamlining its medical underwriting.All non-standard terms, including ratings, exclusions and declines, will be removed for amounts up...

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...