Hargreaves Lansdown has accused actuaries of backing the idea because it will mean more work for them, while several intermediaries have expressed reservations over the tension between the Treasury’s freedom and choice...
Mattioli Woods was first listed on Aim in November 2005. Core services are targeted towards controlling directors, professional persons, owner-managed businesses and small-to-medium sized PLCs. The group now advises over 6,000 clients...
So what options does the Treasury have as it bids to fill the multi-billion pound black hole in its bold and popular pension reform programme? Despite its protestations to the contrary, restricting...
Speaking at a round table event in London last week, advisers said Aviva’s announcement had given much-needed clarity to a key issue for intermediaries and employers, and welcomed the decision to unravel...
Work and pensions shadow secretary of state Rachel Reeves told a Resolution Foundation conference this morning that she wanted a return to the original Turner Commission plan of linking eligibility to the...
The Treasury has been told it must remove some of the tax advantages of pensions or lose three-quarters of tax receipts from workers over age 55 if it presses ahead with the...
Group life policies paid out £877m, while annualised benefits of £318m were paid out on group income protection. There were £50m worth of payouts on group critical illness policies. The claims statistics,...
Justin Crossland Crossland joins Barclays from Towers Watson, where he was the EMEA head of health & wellbeing. Wicken was previously at Mercer, where he has been advising large employers on designing...
The research, conducted amongst 578 adults already saving in a company or individual pension found 48 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds said they were more likely to save more...
In a survey of 50 of the UK’s biggest employers, 54 per cent said the sweeping changes are ‘spot on’ and a ‘great shake up of our current position’. ` The Budget...
