Pensions

There is no evidence that the new state pension has achieved one of its primary aims of providing a system people understand, a National Audit Office report has found. The Pension Bill...

Phil Hollingdale, Staffcare Staffcare founder Phil Hollingdale is joining the board of aggregation software provider Sammedia to help it develop its workplace proposition. Staffcare, which is now part of the SimplyBiz Group,...

By Fiona Holmes, proposition communications manager When I first took out critical illness cover, I was overwhelmed. It wasn’t just the form filling, it was finding out about the sheer number of...

The Pensions Regulator has launched enforcement action against Sir Philip Green and Dominic Chappell, to seek redress on behalf of 20,000 members of the BHS pension schemes. TPR has sent statements of...

Standardised due diligence questionnaires that incorporate global industry best practice and are free to users will enable professional fund buyers to get better information from asset managers, delegates at the first Technology...

An open debate on how to develop incentives for group income protection is needed so the industry can present a coherent response to the recent DWP/DH Improving Lives Work, Health and Disability...

A new Brexit-proofed approach to DC pension investment strategy launched today can give members 15 per cent higher pots, says by Hymans Robertson. The new approach, designed to offset the effects of...

By Amanda Docherty, marketing manager More people than ever are living with critical illnesses like cancer. And this will only increase as the years go on. In fact, the number of people...

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....