Labour’s planned tax on financial transactions has been attacked for undermining the UK’s financial services sector and potentially penalising newly auto-enrolled savers. But suggestions that the so-called Robin Hood tax, intended to...
UK-domiciled investment funds are less likely to have independent governance controls than supposedly ‘Wild West’ Cayman Island funds, a report from LCP has found. The report, based on a survey of 290...
By Sarah Scott, marketing consultant You might think the question in the title is a strange one. Perhaps even more so when you learn that it’s one of several asked as part...
Adding 57 new employers to this year’s group income protection stats is nothing to write home about says Canada Life General Insurance marketing director Paul Avis Why is it that insurers are...
Inflation in the cost of group PMI is predicted to run at 7.8 per cent through 2017 globally, with UK like-for-like premiums expected to rise by 5 per cent, according to a...
Andrew Warwick-Thompson is leaving The Pensions Regulator to take up the role of CEO at LGPS Central. Andrew Warwick-Thompson, TPR Warwick-Thompson leaves his role as executive director for regulatory policy, taking his...
The leaked Labour manifesto proposal to scrap the planned pension age rise will cost taxpayers around £300bn, says former pension minister Steve Webb. Webb calculates the combined effect of the proposed rise...
Transfer values touched record highs in April and fluctuated by more than 3.5 per cent across the month, meaning the value of a £10,000 a year income changed by £9,000, according to...
Protection Review co-founder, campaigner and high-profile life and health consultant Peter Le Beau MBE is retiring from the industry at the end of the year. Le Beau began his career at British...
The Government should rethink its cut to bereavement benefits and employers should be given fiscal incentives to offer group income protection says Baroness Altmann. Altmann’s call for a rethink on bereavement benefits...
