Whitfield, who was one of the first intermediaries to meet with Department for Work and Pensions officials, says officials are in listening mode and want to hear constructive ideas from the industry.He...
Last month Corporate Adviser revealed that 3,000 employers could avoid having to automatically enrol 4 million staff into pension schemes next year because of a loophole in the Pensions Act.Current rules allow...
Over a third of respondents – 38 per cent - said they had no idea about how long they were able to claim Employment and Support Allowance benefit, according to the research...
Default funds for workplace pensions have never been more important. Over the next 12 months millions of workers will be enrolled into schemes, and the overwhelming majority will end up in the...
The provider, which launched a defined benefits proposition offering de-risking solutions to employers and trustees of smaller schemes last month, says ignoring the medical conditions of members with the biggest benefits means...
Lowe warns that unless a level playing field between trust-based and contract-based schemes is created, allowing advice to employers to be deducted from members’ pots in both situations, providers will simply write...
Called Design, Implement and Run, the proposition helps advisers create a series of reports centred around staging dates, current scheme review, workforce assessment and scheme selection. The service allows advisers to determine...
Clare Dare, Broadstone and Emily Marland, The Quadrant Group Auto-enrolment creates huge opportunities, but it also creates complexities for the group risk community - those firms that can make the pensions reforms...
Group Risk Adviser Forum Advisers driving group risk in the new world of auto-enrolment will encounter more of the same challenges - of perception, value, and cost. But with over 1.2m employers...
Seeing the cost of fraud Fraud is an issue across the insurance industry, accounting for annual losses of around £2.1 billion according to figures from the National Fraud Authority. But while staged...
