Pensions

The Labour party is finalising a proposal for a compulsory jobs guarantee, designed to get under 25s, who have been claiming Job Seeker’s Allowance for more than a year, into work. It...

According to the research, 9 per cent of employees approaching retirement with defined benefit pensions think they would be interested in exchanging most or all of this pension for a DC pot...

The Treasury is expected to remove the restriction that requires the tax free lump sum part of a pension entitlement to be paid within 18 months of the member becoming eligible for...

Auto-enrolment for protection sounds like a nice idea – there are lots of reasons why the government, of whatever colour, would want to shift the cost of sickness absence from the state...

Interest rates will rise – it’s a case of when not if. And despite Bank of England Governor Mark ‘The Unreliable Boyfriend’ Carney changing his mind with the seasons, we are unarguable...

Due to auto enrolment and the legislative and DWP announcements this year, the importance of workplace pensions has never been more in focus. Spurred by serious financial sanctions, employers have a mandatory...

As auto-enrolment progresses through the ranks of small businesses, a secondary market is already establishing itself among the early stagers and even some more recent ones.Corporate advice firm Johnson Fleming took the...

The bodies argue bringing together the NAPF’s ability to influence and engage with Government and regulators and the PMI’s qualifications network would create a more substantial organisation. The organisations will now enter...

He predicted the at-retirement post-April 2014 would be chaotic and could bring negative press to the financial services sector. He said: “Let’s hope it doesn’t look too much of a shambles. There’s...

People must be told what’s right for them when it comes to at-retirement products rather than have the industry pass the buck for responsibility on to them, Hymans Robertson partner Douglas Anderson told delegates...