Pensions

We all knew that the Retail Distribution Review was going to cause a big shakeup in the corporate pensions market. Actually seeing the outlawing of commission in black and white, on the...

This Christmas just gone, if we so wished, we could have bought our presents, chatted to our friends and family, booked our parties and bought our groceries, all online. I’m sure it...

The June 2009 House of Lords final judgment on Stringer v HMRC has left the group income protection community little wiser about holiday pay and sick leave issues than they were five...

Intermediaries have played a major role in the growth of both the private medical insurance and group income protection markets since the mid-1980s. But more recently, growth in sales of both of...

As I examined last month, the increased cost to consumers of face to face advice in a post RDR world represents a major opportunity for corporate or workplace platforms to become the...

As readers of Corporate Adviser, you will almost certainly know that Pada has been engaging widely with the investment industry, consumer groups and all interested parties on designing the investment strategy for...

Whether it’s the state of NHS provision or the cover available on a medical insurance scheme, cancer treatment is one area of healthcare that is guaranteed to grab the headlines. And, as...

Buy-to-let is back, if you believe the headlines. Property prices are rising again and a swelling band of tenants, unable to access mortgages of their own, need homes to rent. But close...

With a general election to be held by June next year at the outside, corporate advisers are increasingly pondering what a new administration will mean for employers and employees. The smart money...

As the Pensions Regulator re-iterated in December, incentivising members to ‘give up’ their Defined Benefit arrangement in exchange for a DC alternative is not a straight forward process. Equally, such a move...