Pensions

The insurer calculates that 250,000 high earners in workplace private pensions are missing out on 20 per cent of the value of their pension contributions by not claiming the relief.Standard says poor...

Responding to industry calls that frequency of absence and the extent of long-term absence should feature within audited results, McKenzie told a conference in May that businesses already had "ample scope" to...

The report, prepared using detailed data provided by insurance companies, shows that at least ten FTSE 100 pension schemes are evaluating comprehensive quotations to buy out some or all of their pension...

Under the new agreement BDO Stoy Hayward Investment Management, which has recently been awarded chartered firm status, will offer a range of services to employees of Thomsons Online Benefits clients. The services,...

The pensions industry is breathing a huge sigh of relief after the Government confirmed the European Union does not see auto-enrolment as breaching the Distance Marketing Directive. The decision has also sounded...

David Marlow, marketing director, Alexander Forbes Financial ServicesFrom our experience the pension is taken as the most critical benefit of all and would think it will be the last to come under...

Too often employers focus on pension scheme membership and contribution levels while ignoring the other financial burdens - mortgages, debt, and saving - of staff.It is my belief that employers which emphasise...

The Retail Distribution Review may have been people's primary focus given the inevitable effect it will have on their future, but firms failing to act on the Data Security paper and the...

When defined contribution pension plans were first introduced, some people may have hoped that employees would act as the perfectly rational consumers of classical economic theory by making optimal saving and investment...