A report from the PPI reveals that a 45-year-old contracted out person on median earnings will receive combined state and contracted-out pension of £199 a week, while the person who remained contracted...
Mark Wood Responding to reports of DWP plans to push ahead with the creation of a regulatory framework to facilitate collective DC, JLT Employee Benefits CEO Mark Wood argued smaller schemes had...
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....
