Pensions

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...

Speculation that the lifetime allowance could be cut to £750,000 is fuelling a last-minute rush to make pension contributions, as investors mull borrowing on credit cards to pay money in before perks...

The costs of employer-sponsored plans is expected to increase by 9.3 per cent, with UK medical inflation outpacing increases worldwide, according to a new report from Aon Hewitt. Global medical cost increases...

A third of UK workers say their organisation has a negative approach to mental health problems, with a similar proportion saying no support is offered. Over half of UK employees – 57...

Just 9 per cent of employers have reviewed salary sacrifice usage against the new National Living Wage requirements, according to new research. With the introduction of the National Living Wage less than...

Bosses don’t want employees coming to work unwell but are frustrated by working time lost to doctors’ appointments, according to new research. Thirty-two per cent of owners, directors, senior and middle managers...

FCA and DWP pressure on hidden pension charges will squeeze boutique managers out of the market, force vertically-integrated players to choose the link in the chain where they want to play and...

Occupational schemes will be subject to the same charge cap as contract-based schemes, pension minister Ros Altmann has confirmed. Yesterday the Government set out plans for legislation that would place a duty...