The paper argues that tax thresholds are the largest mitigating factor on take-home pay for a low earner. While April’s increase in auto-enrolment contributions for someone earning £15,000 will reduce take-home pay...
Research conducted across 3,000 respondents found that just 9 per cent are contributing the recommended 16 per cent of salary into their pensions yet 43 per cent think they will retire before the age...
The well-publicised problems with advice on transfers from the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) has ben arguably the most high-profile test to date of the pension freedom and choice policy. While sponsor...
The Work and Pensions Committee has today published a report calling for all pension providers to offer a single default drawdown option and all schemes, including DB, to be required to give...
Fund managers will be required to have two independent directors, comprising at least 25 per cent of the total board membership under the new rules. Responding to a consultation on new rules...
The merger was project managed by JLT Employee Benefits (JLT) and brings in over £5m a year in annual contributions to The People’s Pension, rising to over £10m following next week’s mandatory...
Willis has the biggest gap across the consultancies ranked by Corporate Adviser, with a 39.8 per cent gap, although Towers Watson, the legal entity that contains the human capital and benefits business,...
Widows says the new product suite will enable it to compete for the very largest schemes, as well as enabling intermediaries to build bespoke client investments or offer ready-made solutions for a...
TPR is prosecuting national recruitment firm Workchain Ltd, as well as its directors and some of its senior staff on the suspicion that they illegally opted employees out of their pension scheme....
The regulator’s investigation into life offices and Sipp providers has found that investors accessing pension freedoms are not fully engaged with the risks of drawdown, particularly when accessing the pension commencement lump...
