The survey findings coincide with the latest figures from the bank's Small Business Confidence Index, which reveals that confidence amongst entrepreneurs has slipped by two points during the third quarter of 2007.Nearly...
Aifa is raising the issue of the potential for advisory paralysis because of the risk of retrospective action in the run-up to the introduction of personal accounts.The adviser body is speaking to...
Funds investing in continental Europe are predicted to give better returns than any other geographical sector, according to the results from the Financial Express Adviser Fund Index (AFI) mid-season survey. Conversely, advisers...
Launched this month, Absence Solutions is a telephone-based system which can work alongside the medical intervention services offered by Norwich Union Occupational Health.The system comprises a choice of modules. Absence Manager allows...
The firm's operating profit rose 56 per cent over the period from 437,000 in 2005 to 682,000 in 2006. In the past 12 months the firms says it has made significant progress...
Work-related stress now accounts for more than one third of all new incidences of ill health, with each case leading to an average loss of 30.9 working days. To help benefit managers...
The new role has been created to develop the corporate pensions and benefits offering across the UK, and expand the client base of the risk benefits team in the Midlands. Kingston will...
The accusation follows criticism of some pension statements made last month by Graham Mannion, managing director of portfolio information company PensionDCisions, who highlighted the inability of the great majority of pension providers...
The provider, which is the country's largest independent provider of small self-administered schemes, says advisers should remember that the concept of unauthorised payments was introduced by HMRC at A-day and more recently...
There are growing signs that the annuity market is set for a wholesale shake-up. Both the retail distribution review and the Treasury's own behind-the-scenes annuity review spell change for the sector sooner...
