Administration is a bigger challenge to firms implementing auto-enrolment than the cost of contributing to their employees’ pensions, a survey of 10,000 employers has found. Research by Chase de Vere, the independent...
The Investment Association’s draft cost disclosure code lacks sufficient detail and fails to require signatories to itemise all the costs they incur from their clients’ funds, the Transparency Task Force claims. But...
The Investment Association should not be responsible for creating a code to govern its members because it is inherently conflicted says Transparency Task Force founding chair Andy Agathangelou The overall purpose of...
Corporate Adviser editor John Greenwood was named best B2B pension journalist for the second year running at the Headlinemoney Awards in London last night. Greenwood received his award from Scottish Widows head...
Almost half of UK workers are borrowing to meet day-to-day financial needs and a quarter have monthly income fluctuations of more than 10 per cent, a report by Neyber has found. The...
A cost benefit analysis examining what the pensions dashboard will mean for the wider industry will be at the centre of the ABI-led next phase of the project, announced today. This interim...
Labour's manifesto has pledged to end 'rip-off fees' in the workplace pensions system, revisiting a policy pushed by former leader Ed Miliband. The manifesto pledges to “restore confidence in the workplace pension...
Labour has pledged to increase further insurance premium tax on health insurance, despite the fact that tax on the benefit has doubled in the last two years. Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries...
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...
