Pensions

By Alison Esson, proposition development & technical support manager We want to make trusts as easy as possible for you by taking away some of the misconceptions around what you can use...

By Sarah Scott, marketing consultant Royal London commissioned Opinium to run our State of the Protection Nation research to find out how people felt about their own protection needs and the industry...

By Sarah Scott, marketing consultant On 22 February this year the charity Diabetes UK launched a fundraising initiative, #Swim22. They challenged individuals to swim 22 miles over the course of 89 days...

DB to DC transfer activity has increased fifteen-fold where big pots are involved since pension freedoms took effect in 2015, while a third of retirees will take transfers if given advice and...

New employers that establish PAYE schemes after October 1st will have to automatically enrol their staff into a pension scheme four months earlier than those set up in September, TPR has confirmed....

Health Shield is planning to step out of its traditional territory of cash plans with a launch into the health and wellbeing space. Chief executive Jonathan Burton tells John Greenwood why Why...

The DWP’s review of auto-enrolment should not forget that contribution levels are the biggest influence on retirement outcomes says Claire Finn, head of DC & strategic partnerships, BlackRock EMEA Claire Finn, BlackRock...

Former pension minister Steve Webb is calling for death in service payouts to be made completely tax-free, as it has emerged that some employers are capping payouts entirely where the recipient would...

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...