Pensions

75% of wealthy unaware of new residence nil rate band IHT allowance Just 4% were aware the new allowance will be up to £175,000 per individual Lack of awareness of IHT rules...

Capital Market Notes, December 2016 David Lafferty, Chief Market Strategist at Natixis Global Asset Management, discusses the outcome of the Italian Referendum. Read the full article here

Salary sacrifice remains a powerful benefits mechanism for employee and employer savings despite the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement attack on the strategy says Aon Employee Benefits. The changes unveiled in the Autumn Statement...

Minister for welfare reform Lord Freud, who has been instrumental in the design and implementation of Universal Credit, will be retiring from his ministerial position at the Department for Work and Pensions...

Cash plan provider Health Shield is extending its corporate Home Assistance offering to include providing post-hospital care to members’ parents. Home Assistance, available on Health Shield’s tailored, flex and corporate cash plans,...

Pension participation is not keeping pace with soaring levels of self-employment Self-employed pension saving has more than halved in a decade, with just 14 per cent of non-employed workers putting money away...

Canada Life Group Insurance is partnering with Axa PPP Healthcare to provide employee support services to its 2.7m insured employees across 23,500 employer-funded schemes. The arrangement takes effect from 1st January 2017...

Mercer, Towers Watson and St James’s Place have been highlighted as being amongst the slowest pension administrators at replying to requests for information on exercising pension freedoms, according to research from Portafina....

Pensionsync is launching a pension provider comparison website designed to help UK employers select a workplace pension from providers connected to payroll providers through its software. The service ranks providers, which must...

Group critical illness claims stats differ from those for individual CI for good reason says Ellipse CEO and Group Risk Development (Grid) chairman Lee Lovett As many are aware, Grid has been...