Pensions

Although holiday season is just beginning, at Standard Life our 2016 fee holiday is coming to an end. New Auto-Enrolment clients need to complete their application by 30 April 2016 to take...

Of 11.5m people aged 55-70 across the UK, 3.3m have no private pension provision, while 4 m have at least one pension not yet in payment, according to a major survey by...

Both principle-based regulation and pension freedoms could have been handled better, says Lord Turner, and the regulator should also think hard about safe harbour for advice. John Greenwood hears why Pension freedoms...

By Fiona Tait, Pensions Specialist The new State Pension (nSP) will be implemented at a maximum flat rate of £155.65 per week in 2016/17. This is good news for some, not so...

By Fiona Tait, Pensions Specialist 2015 was quite a year for pensions. Change, more change, and proposed changes to the changes. The Spring Budget - pre-election plans With everything that has happened...

By Jamie Clark, Business Development Manager It seems that auto-enrolment has been relatively successful so far: Figures from the Pensions Regulator show that since the start of auto-enrolment, over 60,000 employers have...

Deputy governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey is to become the new head of the Financial Conduct Authority. The Treasury has confirmed that Bailey will take over from Tracey McDermott,...

Canada Life Group Insurance is offering advisers a free automatic enrolment (AE) video as marketing support to educate clients about the potential for benefits other than pension. The video is targeted at...

Aviva is launching what it describes as a market first relevant life insurance plan that comes with the option to add critical illness cover. One of two new business protection products on...

Actively better management? Big institutional investors will embrace illiquid private market assets and active investment strategies in 2016 against a backdrop of market volatility and divergent monetary policy, a new BlackRock survey...