Called ‘DB Complete’, the service offers a fully bundled defined benefit package costing from 0.4 per cent for a £25m scheme, including trusteeship and governance, administration, investment strategy, fund management charges, actuarial,...
Discovery says the deal, which values the company at £620m, affirms its strategy to make the UK its second home market. The joint venture was initially established as an equally-owned venture between...
The new legislation, which is due to come into force in spring 2015, will allow older employees (those over the age of 55) to access defined-contribution retirement funds in any format they...
The firm’s seventh annual report on the insurance de-risking market estimates that for the first time ever, the value of buy-ins and buy-outs written in 2014 will pass £10bn, and predicts record...
Medicash is one of the UK’s largest health cash plan providers in the UK, with 160,000 individual and corporate customers. APRIL UK was established in 1997 and is part of April Group,...
Jelf AEase was launched at the beginning of 2014 aimed at companies with up to 150 employees. From this, the company has learnt a lot about what is most important to smaller...
Iain Laws, managing director, UK healthcare, said: ‘This is a missed opportunity as many of the 69 per cent above may have an absence management platform in place but no process for...
The first organisations to auto-enrol their employees are now approaching the second anniversary of their staging date. Whilst those schemes are planning their birthday celebrations, their sponsoring employers may reflect on how...
Research from Grid shows that 82 per cent of group income protection (GIP) claims are paid. Some have seen this as not such great news, but I believe this can be viewed...
I don’t usually look at a proposition from one company more than once a year in this column, however, occasionally something exceptional comes along which makes it worth varying my rule. In...
