Why has Grid decided to publish claims paid percentages? Grid is supportive in principle to the publication of relevant claims data on insurance products and has voluntarily gathered collated pan-industry group risk...
I have difficulty in really squaring how advice firms will “potentially benefit” from the guidance guarantee – so would question why we are down to pay for it. The consultation states: 3.1...
Pontin, who is from south Wales, has been appointed to run the Cardiff-based health and wellbeing services intermediary, which was established in 2005. Pontin, who is also Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries chairman,...
The keynote session at this May’s Group Risk Forum, Psychological Wellbeing at Work: Risks and Benefits, may have started off with a few juicy statistics - sickness absence costs £600 per person...
The pensions industry has less than a year to get its act together and limbo dance under the 0.75 per cent charge cap. After much to-ing and fro-ing the charge cap is...
A link to meeting duty of care requirements has made optical benefits something of a grudge purchase for many employers. But, this is beginning to change, with eye care increasingly seen as...
Have some our stagers gone missing? That is certainly the concern among pension providers and advisers who believe that many April and May staging firms may not have made the cut. Some...
The last 14 years have been quite a journey for Chris Bruce, the affable managing director and co-founder of Thomsons Online Benefits. Back in 2000 he was a 25-year-old benefits consultant working...
The deal, which remains subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, includes the acquisition of all of Baker Tilly’s employee benefits corporate contracts, the consulting team and partners, the client support team...
Instead it will rely on the penalty of a reduced lifetime allowance of £10,000 for anyone who accesses more than 25 per cent of their fund to deter individuals from sacrificing salary...
