Pensions

By Fiona Hanrahan, senior product insight and technical support analyst We've received lots of queries on scheme pays and when it can be used. This article explains how it works and the...

Aegon is stopping writing annuities and has signed a deal with Legal and General to provide the products to its customers. The deal follows the sale of its £9bn annuity portfolio to...

Labour leadership hopeful Owen Smith has called for the Department for Work and Pensions to be abolished and replaced with a Ministry for Labour and a Department for Social Security. Smith, who...

Four out of 10 employers contacting Now: Pensions did so either very close to their staging date or after it. The news comes as TPR publishes figures to March 2016 that show...

Almost half a million less employers than predicted will have to go through auto-enrolment because they are ‘single person directors’, the Pensions Regulator has confirmed. In its 2015 annual auto-enrolment commentary and...

Homeowners aged 45 to 54 years are almost as likely to see their home as part of their retirement income planning as their inheritance planning, according to a report from Aviva. Long...

The average annual annuity income available fell by 6.3 per cent in the month following the EU referendum, leaving the UK with the ‘least competitive market ever’, according to Moneyfacts. Conventional annuity...

By Ross Jackson, senior marketing manager There are many different protection online services available in the market and no doubt you’ll have used a few when submitting protection business. But why should you...

Peter O'Donnell, Unum Unum UK is partnering with Pure Benefits, the online platform that is an appointed representative of Portus Consulting, to offer ‘big-business’ employee benefits to small and growing employers. Pure...

JLT’s UK Employee Benefits arm saw a 12 per cent fall in revenue in the first half of 2016, but says its restructure is on track to deliver £7m of savings by...