Pensions

Origen is axing 72 jobs in a bid to tackle the economic downturn and prepare business for the Retail Distribution Review.The job cuts, to be made at all levels of the company...

An investigation into the quality of pre-retirement literature by the Pensions Regulator has found more than half of schemes have room for improvement and three out of 10 are breaking the law.TPR...

The new insurer set up at arms length from Munich Re’s UK reinsurance operations has opened for business to a restricted number of employee benefit consultancies.The new company, called Ellipse, says it...

Product providers are set to ignore an FSA letter warning insurance companies against using trust-based arrangements to sidestep the Retail Last month Corporate Adviser reported that the FSA had sent a confidential...

For followers of this column the problems that the group risk industry currently faces should be familiar. As 2009 - the financial world’s annus horribilus - draws to a close the demands...

Around 15,000 people in the UK face losing at least 20 per cent of their pension benefits if DB scheme trustees do not take control of investment strategy says Hewitt.Hewitt estimates that...

International expatriate insurance specialist William Russell has reported a growth of 647 per cent in year to date UAE sales compared to the same period for 2008, despite the downturn in the...

The projected rise in the UK’s population is likely to lead to substantial tax rises just to sustain current basic pension levels, says Aon Consulting. The ONS estimates that the UK population...

Delegates at the Corporate Adviser DC Summit in Hampshire last month were treated to a musical treat courtesy of Dick Strattan (pictured), head of employee benefits at Mercer. Accomplished pianist Strattan led...

There were 2 million fewer people accruing benefits in non-government DB schemes last year than in 2000, according to the Occupational Pension Schemes Survey 2008, just published by the ONS.Membership of defined...