Pensions

Want to have your cake and eat it too? The latest investment fad insists you can have the best of both worlds – the returns of active investment, at the cost of...

The Budget pension revolution raised a huge number of questions for corporate advisers. One of the most crucial ones is what role, if any, employee benefit consultants and corporate IFAs will play...

As fact-finding missions go, Darran Burton’s six-month part-time spell working inside pension consultancy LCP is a significant one. But despite the hefty commute from the south coast up to the capital, Burton...

1. Investment and continued domestic demandIn low-income countries, a move towards political stability is enabling massive investments that will continue to drive domestic demand. Since the end of its civil conflict in...

Commission will continue to be paid until April 2016 for employers who have staged before April 2015, ‘at a level which reflects the revised pricing for that scheme’. All other commissions for...

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...