Pensions

Steve Cottle, Vielife Insurance intermediaries are split down the middle in their attitudes to provision of health and wellbeing programmes for clients, as well as the value of data gathered as a...

Charlie Crole, Jupiter A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but is it worth three? The answer depends on when we expect to get the birds and our...

  Automatic enrolment is bringing significant change to workplace pensions – affecting 1.2 million employers and around 11 million people. Pensions are moving from being an added extra for a relatively small minority,...

  The entirely predictable torpedoing of consultancy charging by the DWP leaves the workplace pensions community in urgent need of a vehicle to make advice economically viable. Early experiences of adviser charging...

The extension of the ban on consultancy charging to all qualifying pension schemes and not just those being used for auto-enrolment is provoking questions about the foundation of adviser remuneration across the...

  Depriving trustees of access to the services of pension consultants is clearly not the DWP’s policy intention, but irritation at its tardy handling of the ban on consultancy charging is causing...

Xafinity says the fall is due to the increase in bond yields, which rose by 0.25 per cent, more than offsetting the drop in the FTSE during the month.  Xafinity’s figures are...

The research, of over 3,000 employees, found online total reward statements the most wanted method of communication, preferred by 24 per cent of respondents, yet only offered by16 per cent of employers....

The body, which represents 23 national pension bodies across the EU, has expressed concern at the long list of initiatives taken  by governments that shows they see pensions, members and pension institutions...

The Call Handling Survey of nearly 1,000 members, which was conducted between January and June 2013, revealed that 94 per cent of those questioned were happy with their overall experience of calling...