This year, above all others, we have so much opportunity and challenge in the pensions industry. Most pleasingly, the direction of travel is undoubtedly to ensure more “average consumers” have better outcomes...
Capital Management Solutions director Peter Angell was turned down when he attempted to arrange a new pension scheme for a client willing to match their employee contributions up to 5 per cent...
With the government pushing people towards their employer rather than the welfare system as a safety net for long term illness, it has never been more important for employers to ensure they...
But the regulator has stopped short of calling for a ban on using research paid for through bundled commissions and has not called for mandatory transparency measures to require fund managers to...
The transaction, which will see Aetna grow its presence in emerging markets, is expected to complete during the first half of 2014. InterGlobal has more than 65,000 medical members worldwide, and specializes...
Harris will oversee the mutual’s sales team, and take responsibility for growing partner and intermediary sales channels as well as increasing the focus on direct to consumer sales. She will also become...
The consultancy has warned that employers due to start auto-enrolment in or shortly after April 2014 should make contingency plans as a matter off urgency. Towers Watson says it is unlikely the...
From today trustees of trust-based DC schemes must be able to demonstrate how they comply with the 31 quality features set out by TPR’s new code. TPR says it will take enforcement...
The UK life and pensions industry is not generally known for innovation but there is one area of the market where accepted levels of service from some insurers are nothing less than...
Auto-enrolment for SME employers is nearly upon us, and paints a daunting prospect for all parts of the industry. But the provider sector has arguably most to fear. Recently hit by the...
