Pensions

It is no overstatement to say that, in the eyes of the public, Dr Ros Altmann is the most popular person within the world of pensions – and by a very wide...

Ask yourself: If a co-owner died or suffered a critical illness, is the control of your business under threat? If the worst happened, what would your family receive? If it was you...

Multi-employer organisation Denplan says it has selected Aon’s auto-enrolment solution for its members, none of which have yet reached their auto-enrolment staging date, for its ease of use. Aon Employee Benefits head...

Speaking on Nicky Campbell’s Radio 5 breakfast show this morning, Altmann responded to criticisms outlined in the Daily Mail that the reforms were becoming a shambles by blaming providers for failing to...

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...