Pensions

Consumer price inflation will peak at around 4 per cent in the second half of 2017, impacting real disposable income and putting further pressure on defined benefit pension schemes, experts predict. CPI...

The Government has launched a green paper calling for better take-up of income protection insurance amongst employers and asking the industry to develop new products tailored to the needs of smaller firms....

Sanlam UK has made a triple swoop for employee benefits consultants from Arthur J Gallagher. Richard Haynes, Joanne Neary and Adam Percival all join from Arthur J. Gallagher, bringing the number of...

The majority of DB schemes are now cashflow negative as pension freedom cashouts accelerates withdrawals, analysis from Hymans Robertson shows. Today 57 per cent of schemes have more money going out in...

ADVO Group is buying HR consultancy HR Experts Limited (HRE), which was previously part of Broker Direct PLC, for an undisclosed sum. ADVO says the acquisition is part of its strategy to...

Bigger firms generate more revenue per adviser than smaller ones, although advisers in large firms are more likely to be supported by other staff, according to figures from the Financial Conduct Authority....

Employers face significant cost increases for their group income protection policies if they do not prepare for big reductions in state benefits from next April warns Aon Employee Benefits. The consultancy says...

A tidal wave of new business is about to hit the intermediary sector – if they want it. Getting your proposition right is key to making it work says Nest director of...

The number of escalating penalty notices more than quadrupled in the third quarter of 2016, with 576 fines issued over the period, compared to 165 for the previous four years of the...

Fit for Work, the state-funded health and work advisory and assessment service resulting from the 2011 Black/Frost review of sickness absence, has been up and running for a year - but it...