Pensions

Hargreaves has stepped down from the board with immediate effect. Hargreaves Lansdown shares fell 2.4 per cent within a few minutes of the announcement. Hargreaves and Lansdown set up the business in...

The headline numbers from the above report are impressive: 200,000 more people received life and disability cover arranged by their employer in 2014, which itself built on a further 300,000 new people...

Major Dutch pension fund manger APG, French giants Amundi and BNP Paribas, the Pensions Trust and Kames Capital in the UK, Wespath in the US, and large German fund manager Union Investment...

Technology is revolutionising the international private medical insurance (IPMI) market, delivering significant benefits to insurers as well as to employers and their expatriate employees. But, with the pace of technological advance accelerating,...

Nearly 1,000 Standard Life customers settled their benefits themselves online, having gone through web-based risk warnings in the first day and a half of the new freedoms, the first day of which...

Under auto-enrolment legislation, schemes must satisfy minimum quality requirements to ensure all eligible employees receive mandatory minimum levels of pension contributions from their employer. As more and more employers approach the renewal...

The provider, which has been vocal in calling on the government to lower the auto-enrolment pension charge cap to 0.5 per cent, says it does not expect to break even on its...

Successive saving-related policy initiatives taken by the current government could be interpreted as stepping stones towards the ultimate merger of pensions and Isas.  These include several reductions in pensions’ lifetime and annual...

Fit for Work is the government’s new flagship policy to reduce long-term sickness absence in the UK. The service began its long-awaited roll-out in March in two geographical areas, and should be...