The DWP consultation paper on defined ambition cannot be accused of itself lacking ambition. Its optimistic title, “Reshaping workplace pensions for future generations” follows on from a previous paper that promised to...
National press and politicians have been waging a war on pensions. Workplace schemes have been labelled indecipherable, high charging and slow moving – accused of putting the priorities of pension savers last....
They say you get what you pay but, while this may be true for many things, when it comes to healthcare, the link between price and quality isn’t always so clear. How...
This Christmas could be the last chance for many corporate advisers to eat drink and be merry because tomorrow their income stream could be choked off in its prime.Government plans to cap...
In a statement that backs the Regulatory Policy Committee’s concerns over the timetable of the implementation of a charge cap, the trade body warned that the DWP’s timetable for implementation by April...
It adds that it will now not respond to the consultation before the new year. Yesterday the RPC, the independent body that validated impacts on business of government departments regulatory and deregulatory...
The RPC, the independent body that validated impacts on business of government departments regulatory and deregulatory proposals, has highlighted serious potential flaws in the impact assessment, which shows the cost of increasing...
The group risk industry’s initial reaction to the news that it had acquired an exemption from the abolition of the default retirement age (DRA) in October 2011 was overwhelmingly one of relief....
The changes mean another 170,000 people are excluded from being enrolled, of whom 120,000 are women. The TUC is calling for the linking of the qualification threshold to the income tax personal...
The consultancy’s response to the DWP’s charge consultation says other approaches mooted by the DWP, such as simply capping AMCs at 0.75 or 1 per cent, risk putting more innovative products out...
