New occupational pension business, which covers both defined benefit and defined contribution pensions, fell 1.9 per cent to and#163;203m, from a figure of and#163;207m in Q1 of 2007. This was offset by...
Hodson says advisers face a diminishing number of providers who will quote for smaller business and are almost being forced back down a commission type route in order to choose a provider.Responding...
Around 1,300 working adults across the UK were asked what benefit they would prefer to receive if they were diagnosed with cancer. The findings showed that nearly one in two workers, 49...
The Government is now amending the Pensions Bill 2007 to allow automatic enrolment into workplace personal pensions, after receiving confirmation that this was consistent with EU law.The Bill already allows for automatic...
As Edmund Tirbutt reports in this issue, service standards in the group risk sector, for far too long the bain of the lives of those advisers specialising in the sector, are now...
"The government is seeking views on ways to provide more flexibility to encourage risk sharing schemes, rather than just final salary or defined contribution arrangements which are at polar ends of the...
TPR's guide to retirement options and the open market option in occupational DC schemes comes weeks after the House of Commons committee on public accounts issued a report slamming its achievements in...
