Pensions

When the government launched stakeholder pensions in 2001, the plan was that they would be a simple, low cost and easy to access pension that every employer had to offer, by law,...

Although not really understood in the UK, personal financial management services like those from On Trees have had a dramatic impact on how consumers take control of their money elsewhere in the...

In March the pensions industry in the UK auto enrolled the 3 millionth new pension scheme member since the first businesses began staging in October 2012. That took 18 months. In the...

The insurer estimates the external accountancy cost of complying with the framework at around £60,000. With internal costs factored in this will push up the cost of complying to over £100,000 it...

TPR and ICAEW launched the voluntary assurance framework for master trusts today. It is designed to enable trustees of master trusts to demonstrate to employers that their scheme is managed to a...

The research, amongst UK SMEs, found 24 per cent of businesses have had an employee or former employee make a claim against their employers’ liability insurance in the last five years. Firms...

ICAEW has published guidance on applying the assurance framework to occupational defined contribution (DC) master trusts. The assurance framework sets out how trustees should report against a series of ‘control objectives’ related...

Speaking at the British Medical Association Private Practice Conference today, Bupa Health Funding managing director Dr Damien Marmion said fee cuts were essential to address the ‘excessive profits’ being made by hospitals....

As a Liverpool fan, the Premier League had renewed interest for me this season.  Sadly we didn’t quite manage to end our 24 year wait for the title, but I have high...

Not all advisory firms are doing auto-enrolment as well as Capita Employee Benefits says its new chief executive Susan Ring. In fact, says the former Unum CEO, the firm is being approached...