Pensions

The provider has made the call after confirming it had identified a third of the employers it had expected to peak in the key April and May staging period had failed to...

The intermediary found 68 per cent of the 200 employers it surveyed will need to review their scheme following the imposition of new minimum standards that include the charge cap, the ban...

The ONS figures show the pace of increase in the number of people working past state retirement age is accelerating. It took more than 10 years for the number of people working...

In its response to the Treasury’s freedom and choice in pensions consultation JLT says advice and assistance can best be delivered through the workplace by intermediaries. The firm’s research found 63 per...

Responding to the government’s consultation on freedom and choice in pensions, which closes today, Fidelity retirement director Alan Higham, argues that whoever provides the guidance guarantee, provider interaction will be unavoidable, and...

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Entitled Funding DB Benefits, the code has been described as part of a significant change in the regulator’s approach to DB schemes. TPR says it recognises that a strong ongoing employer alongside...

Providers with parents in the two countries cited as having successful CDC arrangements, Netherlands-based Aegon and Now: Pensions, a subsidiary of Denmark’s ATP, have both poured cold water on the government’s claims...

The service, which will be introduced later this year and will offer specialist occupational health assessments and advice to employers, employees and GPs, is designed to reduce the costs of sickness absence...

Hargreaves Lansdown has accused actuaries of backing the idea because it will mean more work for them, while several intermediaries have expressed reservations over the tension between the Treasury’s freedom and choice...