Pro-EU former education minister Nicky Morgan has been named chair of the Treasury Select Committee, defeating a field of other MPs including Brexiteer and potential Tory leadership candidate Jacob Rees-Mogg. The appointment...
Same-sex partners can no longer be paid less from pension funds saved by their partner, the Supreme Court has decided today. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the husband of 66-year-old John...
MPs are expected to decide today who will take over the influential role of chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, prompting transparency campaigners to highlight the need for completely independent oversight of...
SimplyBiz chairman Ken Davy has slammed pension minister Guy Opperman for a ‘backward’ announcement that guaranteed annuity rate (GAR) holders with sub-£30,000 pots will no longer need advice. Davy has attacked the...
A lack of trust in pensions is driving more than half of pots withdrawn through pension freedoms to be moved into other investments, causing individuals to pay extra tax, miss out on...
Self-employed people should be automatically enrolled into a pension, paying 4 per cent of income into a product unless they choose to opt out, the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices has...
More than 8 million employees have signed up for a workplace pension since the launch of automatic enrolment, but the proportion of employers missing their staging date is soaring, new figures show....
Midlands-based employee benefits consultancy Portus Consulting has been bought by Aon for an undisclosed fee. Portus has around 190 clients, largely across the 50 to 750 employee SME sector, with a strong...
Just Retirement Solutions (JRS) and The Open Market Annuity Service (TOMAS) are merging to create a single at-retirement firm called Hub Financial Solutions, with Graham Jarvis appointed today as its director of...
You don’t have to be a blue chip to benefit from multinational pooling. Expanding UK SMEs and International Middle Market (MMI) companies can also enjoy the benefits of a pooled approach says...
