Speaking at the Corporate Adviser Group Risk Forum yesterday O’Donnell referred to evidence showing an increased appetite for wellbeing amongst employers, right up to finance director. He cited Unum research that showed...
Launched at the Corporate Adviser Group Risk Forum yesterday, the product pays out if the eligible scheme member is diagnosed with cancer and survives for at least 14 days from the date...
One of the criticisms often levelled at the DC pensions industry is that it has been too opaque. But thankfully, there are improvements. Transparency initiatives on fees, reporting and oversight, driven by...
If there was any doubt that an entire operating environment can change within a year, then what has happened to pensions in 2014 has surely quashed it. Incumbent organisations, trade bodies and...
There has been a significant amount of change across the workplace savings industry, with little sign of things slowing down. Workplace pensions are not only in demand but are now a requirement....
In a leaked letter from financial secretary to the Treasury David Gauke MP to the chairs of the Taxation of Pensions Bill Committee, seen by Corporate Adviser, the government sets out revised...
Russell says despite lower tax receipts, reduced borrowing costs and prior year adjustments have resulted in only a modest change to the 2014/15 gilt remit, and warns that the prospect of improving...
Wood warns that a mass exodus from DB schemes and stricter solvency rules imposed by the EU will accelerate plans for closure of remaining private sector final salary schemes. Wood says: “The...
But some advisers have criticised the missed opportunity to give more details about how the biggest changes to the pension system for generations are to be implemented. Barnett Waddingham senior consultant Malcolm...
LibDem leader Nick Clegg’s decision to crown his party conference speech this autumn with a call for new waiting time targets for treatment for mental health conditions has pushed the issue of...
