Pensions

Capita says the Australian research paints a difficult future for annuity providers unless they adapt their propositions significantly. It points to 2012 research from Challenger, the largest annuity provider in Australia that...

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Tailoring employee healthcare benefits to the needs of a workforce can supercharge their effectiveness. But, while a growing range of options are available to help those looking to bespoke, a more radical...

How do families protect themselves from unexpected financial trouble? There are essentially three choices: they put savings aside, they bank on having sufficient income to ride out the storm, or they take...

Over the last few years, our commitment to you, our business partners, has been to provide all the support we can so we can grow the Group Risk market together. We have...

Royal London group CEO Phil Loney says: “This is a lacklustre policy announcement.  It is disappointing that in the wake of the Chancellor’s inspirational reforms to the “at retirement” market, dropping of...

Webb said the Government wanted to shine a light into the ‘dark recesses of the pensions industry’, and said that consideration would be given to including transaction costs within the default fund...

Webb told Parliamentt that over the next decade his charge cap reforms will transfer £200m from the profits of the pensions industry to the pockets of savers. Webb said: “This government will...

The cap, which is part of its consultation work on minimum standards for workplace pension schemes, excludes transaction charges. Hargreaves Lansdown head of pensions research Tom McPhail says: “It is vital that...