Health insurance and cash plans should be treated as a zero-rated insurance cover product like life and critical illness cover, AMII chairman Stuart Scullion told a packed annual conference yesterday. Scullion applauded...
Millions of savers with endowment and whole of life policies are to be taxed in a move that will raise over £500m for the Treasury, an analysis of the Budget small print...
The UK economy is set for a three-year slowdown with potentially negative impacts on DB pension funding and earnings growth likely to falter say experts. Macro economists have given a downbeat response...
The number of workers auto-enrolled but not entitled to tax relief in net pay schemes could increase from April 2018, following the Chancellor’s Budget decision to increase the income tax personal allowance...
The Chancellor’s decision to leave pensions tax relief unchanged in yesterday’s Budget has divided the industry between those relieved at the maintenance of the status quo and those calling for a big...
The Chancellor's pledge to make it easier for pension funds to invest in infrastructure has been described as ‘naïve’ and a ‘damp squib’ by senior figures in the pensions sector. Society of...
DC pension providers should be required to offer savers the option to invest in a government-backed investment vehicle, akin to the French ‘Solidarity Investment Fund, and will get tax relief beyond their...
Transparency services provider Simplitium, is hiring Kas Bank pair Stewart Bevan and Tom Hibbard to lead a drive into the pensions sector. Simplitium has delivered reporting solutions in the over the counter...
Canada Life is rolling out a deeper mental health proposition with RedArc following a trial that indicates absences can be significantly reduced with more intensive interventions. Following an eight-month project investigating the...
Working dashboards could be just 12 months away – but it will take compulsion to get there says ITM executive chairman Duncan Howorth It is with a mix of elation and frustration...
