Pensions

PSigma Asset Management was formed in February 2007 as a joint venture - 50 per cent owned by the founder partners and 50 per cent by the Punter Southall Group. Since then,...

The charge comes on the publication of a damning report on the state of the annuitisation process in the group pensions market that has found evidence of price manipulation, differentials between pricing...

Whatever happens to the Euro, it is premature to bank on an end to infernal meddling from annoying technocrats any time soon.So, while on one level side-splittingly hilarious, the latest EU proposals...

Group life schemes’ catastrophic event limits are what I have in mind. Maximising them can be a complex exercise involving multiple insurers and a lot of haggling, but they are too big...

Alot can change in 12 months. After 2011, neither Middle East politics nor the Eurozone will ever be the same. And nor should the Income Protection market. Not one but two insurers...

Attitudes to work have undergone a fundamental shift in recent decades. As employees have moved away from the notion of a job for life towards more transient careers, so employers have begun...

Private healthcare could be set for a shake-up following a review of the UK’s privately funded healthcare services by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). The review, which highlighted a number of...

Evidence of hardening in group risk rates now extends well beyond the anecdotal. Intermediaries report big increases from some providers, and in some cases providers are not even prepared to offer terms...

The United States is still the world’s biggest economy, yet it is shunned by British retail investors who prefer to keep their money at home. But the US economic recovery is key...

Five providers - Aegon, Friends Life, Legal & General, Prudential and Scottish Life - have come together with Sesame Bankhall and Deloitte to establish some approaches towards consultancy charging in a report...