Pensions

Mackay started his career with Arthur Anderson and then gained commercial experience with Rank Xerox and Pitney Bowes. He spent 15 years with Lloyds TSB Group where he held a number of...

Iain Laws, director at reward consultancy Enrich, says: "In the recession of the early 1990s employee benefits were sacrificed for survival among small businesses. Medium and larger enterprises focused on containing costs...

Yet despite the recent upheavals, offshore providers and IFAs say that while care needs to be taken when considering investing client monies abroad, such products can still be beneficial for the right...

"The threat of redundancy is like a dark cloud for many people. This can affect people in the workplace, whether it's their position that's at risk or that of their partner," says...

Opportunities for product development in the realm of income protection have arisen on the back of the trend for employers to switch from defined benefit to defined contribution pension schemes. In the...

But the Committee of Reference, its filtering body which is independent of F&C and Friends Provident, reckoned that financial services companies had changed and so it agreed to revise its criteria: 'in...

The unprecedented volatility of the last 18 months has undoubtedly created clear groups of winners and losers. Investors who were in lifestyling funds and are retiring now will have done well out...