Actuarial students working at LCP will no longer need to complete work-based skills documentation because, as an accredited employer, LCP can now use its appraisal system to review and document work-based skills...
The IFS says the proposals imply a cut in pension entitlements for most people in the long run.It says while there will be some winners, since 2002, coverage under the current pension...
The reforms will see the basic state pension and state second pension replaced with a single flat-rate pension of £144 a week in today’s money from 2017.Leaked details of the reforms point...
While praising positive elements in the reforms, which are understood to include a pension for a single person of £144 a week in today’s money starting April 2017 based on 35 years’...
But contract-based providers are celebrating statements from TPR they see as an endorsement of GPPs.TPR says the DC code and DC regulatory guidance will apply only to occupational DC trust-based pension schemes...
TPR has published papers setting out its regulatory approach, a new code of practice and a regulatory guidance document and is asking the industry for views on all three documents.It also wants...
The survey found 48 per cent of employers looking to introduce new initiatives in 2013.But 54 per cent said there isn’t enough choice in terms of competition from insurers and hospitals. The research...
Both the Department for Work and Pensions and the Pensions Regulator are setting a great deal of store by scheme governance to ensure standards and good outcomes for members as auto-enrolment begins...
It is not every day that one of the biggest financial services companies in the world decides to enter the workplace benefits consulting sector. So the arrival of Barclays into the space...
Advisers face a winter planning blight on consultancy charging as the DWP digests whether it will abolish the charging structure altogether for auto-enrolment schemes. Advisers and providers urgently need to get their...
