Baroness Drake, who is on the board of the Pensions Advisory Service, and who was a member of Lord Turner’s pension commission, told a debate in the House of Lords yesterday that...
Speaking at a Secondsight conference this morning, Webb said he would be surprised if Treasury officials were not considering cutting salary sacrifice, which would effectively mean levying National Insurance on pension contributions....
The insurer rightly points to the self-employed and those on zero-hours contracts as the grouping most exposed to this issue. Yet that overlooks that many employers – often established businesses with sizable workforces – offer nominal or no...
This topic did not feature in the election debate on pensions, yet now that the dust has settled on a new majority administration Conservative government, and indeed a new pensions minister in...
The survey of more than 200 senior HR and finance professionals found that more than three in four (76 per cent) employers believed that an increase in pension contribution levels should be...
Root-and-branch reform of the entire workplace retirement income proposition is needed if the industry is to meet the challenge thrown at it by the freedom and choice reforms. And that means new...
Early signs of the impact of the 2014 Budget changes point to a mismatch between what the public thinks it can have and what employers and trustees are giving it. While market...
The research found decision-making at most multinationals has heavy involvement from local stakeholders, with 40 per cent making mainly local decisions, and 15 per cent making completely local decisions. Just 7 per...
Research carried out amongst more than 1,000 GPs on behalf of Cigna found 61 per cent are not aware of the service, and of those who are, over a third have not...
By Rob Burnett, Investment Director, Head of European Equities As investors await a resolution of Greece’s repayment difficulties, we anticipate a period of consolidation in the European market over the next few...
