Zurich’s new default fund consists of three underlying funds. Schroders are managing the Mixed Investments and the DC Pre-Retirement funds, while the Zurich Deposit & Treasury fund is managed by Threadneedle. The...
The new website will go live on 6th May 2013, offering high-level information on employer duties, including employer guides, onboarding guidance to help with employer preparation and online set-up of Nest and...
The insurer found a decrease in key person protection of just over £21 billion and a significant increase in the shareholder protection gap of over £255 billion. The biggest factor to account...
Benjamin joined HSA in 2000, which became Simplyhealth in 2009, and led the company throughout a number of mergers and acquisitions, most recently Denplan and the healthcare arm of Groupama Insurances. Simplyhealth...
The advertising incorporates the Friendly Society’s family of Health Shield characters. Philip Wood, executive director of sales and marketing at Health Shield, said the campaign was designed to remind the company’s audience...
ACA chairman Andrew Vaughan made the call in the wake of the publication of the DWP’s Red Tape Challenge proposals for easing the administrative and regulatory burden on employers offering DB schemes....
The Select Committee says it is concerned at the inconsistent regulation across workplace pension schemes with several bodies with responsibility for regulating contract-based pension schemes. The report says: “Financial services regulation changed...
The CBI, NAPF, Labour Party and several pensions consultants have attacked the Government’s ‘pot follows member’ plan, accusing it of risking transferring pots to poorer value schemes, increase costs, introduce a short-termist...
The effects of the the introduction of auto-enrolment are still to have an impact on the market. The total cover provided by employer sponsored death benefits arrangements topped £1 billion in 2012...
Rule 6.1C.20(2) of the FSA’s Conduct of Business Sourcebook states that firms must not make a consultancy charge for the cost of preparing or giving advice to an employee who chooses...
