Pensions

Mercer is appointing former Standard Life director Peter Kane as a principal in its Glasgow office. Kane will focus on growing Mercer’s retirement business in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Kane is a...

NICs relief on employer contributions should be stopped saving up to £10.8bn a year, while abolishing tax relief would save the Government £14bn a year says CPS fellow Michael Johnson. Johnson’s proposals...

Employees should be given the freedom to choose whether their auto-enrolment contributions go into their occupational pension, a Lifetime Isa or a new Workplace Isa, under radical proposals outlined by Centre for...

The average age of a UK worker is now over 41 and the 50-plus cohort will become the largest in the workforce in the next decade, but the rise is not keeping...

The Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) is to lobby the Government for health insurance to be exempt from Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) following two increases in the tax in less...

Swindon Town FC has been fined more than £22,000 for automatic enrolment failures, TPR has confirmed. Swindon Town Football Company Limited (STFC) received fines from The Pensions Regulator worth a total of...

Annuity providers will be required to recommend those seeking to surrender their products seek professional financial advice, even if such advice is not legally required, and tell vendors to shop around for...

Dr Chris Sier, Stonefish Consulting A voluntary code is the fastest route to real progress on pension fund charge transparency says Stonefish Consulting managing director Chris Sier There is a general belief...

Steve Bridger, Aviva A tax charge of £10,500 could arise from an excepted group life policy payout of £500,000, but creating a new trust and policy prior to the 10-year anniversary of...

Unum got 7 out of 10 people with serious health problems that used its group income protection rehabilitation service back to work last year. The statement shows 41 per cent of those...