Pensions

Last week I received a most unexpected request. Did I know anyone who might be able to effect an introduction to the new governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney?Following the...

AMII promotes and maintains high standards of professional and ethical conduct amongst members, and aims to increase awareness of the role of specialist medical insurance advisers. Members adhere to a code of ethics...

Much of what has happened in financial services in the past three decades has been the result of the implementation of policies based on economic theories. These have encouraged the belief that...

Frost Consulting principal Neil Scarth told delegates at the event in London that in around $6.6bn of this sum was used to pay for research, half of which went to third party...

The PMI says that industry predictions around DB legacy issues, particularly those involving buy-out, being completed within 25-30 years are wildly over optimistic, with the reality much closer to 50 years. The...

Advisers wanting to access the new service must have suitable middleware, such as a benefits platform, to handle the administration of flex schemes. The middleware must be capable of calculating premiums from...

  Munro’s departure from the fund, which has been widely used as a default fund within group pension schemes, follows that of three other members of the GARS investment team late last...

This followed stable demand in 2011 when policies edged down by 0.1 per cent, but a sizeable contraction in policy numbers of nearly 8 per cent overall during 2009 and 2010. Findings...

The EAP Market Watch 2113 report shows 13.2m employees are now covered by EAPs, up from 8.2 million employees 2008.The report found 23 of the top 25 companies listed in the 2013...

The global bank, which is the UK’s second biggest company with a market cap of £135bn, says it will no longer look to distribute corporate pensions through intermediaries. Launched in November 2010,...