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...
Advisers need to sort the wheat from the chaff when comparing default investment propositions says Nest director of business development Paul Budgen Before making a major purchase, whether it’s buying a laptop...
Few people know whether Chancellor George Osborne’s pension freedom fantasy was created through mistake, deception or a long-term conspiracy to do away with pensions altogether. Whatever Osborne’s reasoning, it certainly earned him...
The latest tax assault on PMI may be part of a Treasury plan to equalise IPT and VAT – the industry must unite to fight it says AMII chairman Stuart Scullion The...
