Called Independent Governance Oversight (IGO), the new service is designed to operate both with schemes’ existing governance committees, or where there are none, to take sole responsibility. L&G says it is making...
In a paper for the Fabian Society, Labour pensions shadow Gregg McClymont MP and his senior parliamentary assistant Andy Tarrant argue contract-based pension schemes contain an inherent conflict of interest between...
Whitfield says consultancy charging could still be possible where the employer offers a scheme with contributions above the auto-enrolment level that employees are invited to switch to after they have been automatically...
Across the divide The 1 January 2013 RDR start date arguably represented less of a cliff edge for workplace pensions than it did for the retail pensions and investments market. Commission was...
Toby Strauss is clearly finding fulfilment at the helm of one of the nation’s most established pension companies at a time when we are grappling with a historic transition to a more...
John Dean, director, Punter Southall Health & Protection Consulting ‘The only constant is change’. It’s a hackneyed phrase, but one that supposedly sums up the world we live in today. And yet,...
<p class="inline_caption">Patrick Watt, director, corporate, Bupa Health Funding</p> Britain is in a poor state of workplace health. Over 140 million working days are lost per year to employee sick days costing companies...
Paul Francis Change - it’s everywhere; it always has been and it always will be. Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics see to that. But the pace of change for us...
Scottish Life head of group communications Alasdair Buchanan says schemes may need to be restructured if new joiners are not allowed to be subject to a consultancy charge, as this would mean...
In a written ministerial statement issued today pensions minister Steve Webb pension said the DWP’s six month consultation had found existing measures to prevent advisers deducting high charges from members’ pension pots...
